Word: ascot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bony ankles were strong enough to satisfy both the veterinarians and the two-dollar bettors. Now even the Dancer's next start was doubtful. As for Vanderbilt's hope of entering him in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at England's Ascot, the odds were clearly against...
...already entered the horse for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, a one-and-a-half-mile race at Ascot in July, which would mix the Dancer with the best on the other side of the Atlantic. At Ascot, the Dancer would have to race clockwise instead of counterclockwise, on turf instead of dirt, on a course that runs irregularly instead of on a neat, flat oval. The last bend of Ascot's "old mile" rises more than 40 feet in three furlongs. To run the course's ups & downs, a horse must be able to accelerate, slow...
...Nowadays everybody fiddles," admitted an Inland Revenue man. It was about the only way to get one's supper at crowded places like Les Ambassadeurs (bill for two: $35), or to make one's appearance in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot (including a new dress each day, de rigueur for one's wife: $1,400 for the week...
...visit would be too expensive. In the British Parliament, Bevanite and near-Bevan-ite Socialists were once again raising the cry that royalty was too costly ($1,700,000 a year) and too undemocratic. A Socialist scolded the Queen for maintaining a private enclosure for the horse races at Ascot; a Methodist minister scolded her for going to races at all ("They are full of racketeers"). The same outraged Methodist berated the Duke of Edinburgh for playing polo on Sunday, while the leftists howled that he took too much interest in politics. (In a speech at Edinburgh, Philip had cautiously...
...Suffolk, I jumped at the chance to tag along. You've got to understand, this guy is no professional tout. Mike has practically worked his way through school helping long-shot jockeys boot 'cm across with controlled body English. Besides, it was opening day; you know, sort of like Ascot or Churchill Drowns only with chinos and beer...