Word: ascot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second largest offer ever made for a horse-$600,000 by the Aga Khan in 1926 to Sir James Rutherford, Scotch distiller, for Solarie, Ascot cup winner...
...Ascot last week, eyed by Edward of Wales, the Duke & Duchess of York and several thousand other spectators in flowered dresses and grey toppers, Reigh Count, winner of last year's Kentucky Derby, and of this year's Coronation stakes in England, ran eagerly and fast but only came in second in England's great and fashionable Ascot Derby. The winner by two lengths was Invershin, a powerful seven-year-old owned by British Sportsman Reid Walker. Owner Walker, not as surprised as he might have 'been, because Invershin won the same race last year, purred...
...Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed as long as possible under the designation "Mr. A," and it was not until last year that Queen Mary restored the Maharaja to general English esteem by welcoming him publicly to the Royal Box at Ascot. Cinema cameras caught the whole party smiling and chatting amiably, with no trace of squeamishness or shame on anyone's face...
...king's horses, at least all those he uses for racing, and all the king's men, anyway all those he knows by their first names, went down to Ascot Heath last week. Whether it is rainy or the sun is shining, the King and all smart Britishers must go to Ascot every year. From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold. He saw Lord Derby's Toboggan, a nice...
...rounds of the British open championship were played last week, is accounted the hardest inland course in England. There Robert T. Jones went out to qualify last week followed by a number of gentlemen in top hats with racing badges in their lapels, for the King was expected at Ascot that day and these gentlemen wanted, if possible, to be in two places at once. Those of soundest judgment deserted all thought of horse-racing, stayed to watch Jones play two rounds in 134-a stunning 66, a steady 68-36 holes with but one 5 and one 2-golf...