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...Ascot, in one day, Prince Aly Khan saw his father's filly Princesse Retta beaten in the Queen Mary Stakes, was kicked in the midriff and knocked flat by his own favorite filly, Martine, under the eyes of Queen Elizabeth, later saw Martine finish out of the money. Hiding behind dark glasses and displaying her customary distaste for photographers, Greta Garbo arrived in Monte Carlo, was photographed strolling the streets just before she boarded Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' yacht, which was bound for Saudi Arabia, with stops along the way at Capri and Venice...
...this year's Trooping the Color at the Horse Guards parade ("The young princess had some difficulty in persuading her mount to settle down. But it was done . . coolly and decisively"). She also painted a vivid word picture of the scene at this year's Royal Ascot races ("an air of enthusiasm about it never seen be fore"). There were only a couple of things wrong with the story: neither event ever took place. Because of the British railroad strike, both were canceled, but not in time to catch Crawfie's column, which goes to press...
...Britain's Ascot Heath track, two pretty equestriennes, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, staged an impromptu three-furlong horse race. Neck and neck most of the way, they galloped abreast into the stretch, where Margaret pushed her mount ahead to win by three lengths. Later, the two royal ladies still had horses on their minds. They turned up in West Norfolk to watch a horsy event, strolled to the stands with the care free air of schoolgirls on a holiday...
...mourning, a $2,500 plater named Sunny Al was scratched in the eighth race at Tropical Park that afternoon. The former bootblack was Anthony Aste, 88, founder of the Griffin Manufacturing Co. (the world's largest makers of shoe polish) and owner of the old Ascot Stable. In six decades on the American turf, Sportsman Aste, "the King of the Bootblacks," had made his mark with a colorful personality and many a better horse than Sunny...
Last week Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, announced that Ascot would relax its rigid rules. From now on, participation in a divorce action will not be grounds for automatic exclusion from the royal enclosure. The same old rigid rules would still govern admission to the patch of ground immediately before the Queen's box, known as the "Queen's Lawn." And now that the big barrier is down, said the duke, the size of the royal enclosure will be doubled...