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...ticket to the royal enclosure at Ascot costs only ?10 (?7 for women), but for two centuries British horse-lovers have had more trouble getting in than a fishmonger's daughter trying to marry the Prince of Wales. A man needed more than the cash and the proper clothes; his social background had to shine pure and proud under the fierce scrutiny of the Duke of Norfolk and his committee of twelve inquisitors. Ever since Ascot was founded by Queen Anne in 1711, court rules have governed admission to the royal enclosure. And since Britain's Sovereign heads...
...could go coroneted to acclaim your Queen in Westminster Abbey with the stain of divorce on you," wrote an angry Sunday Express columnist last year, "but you cannot, if so stained, have the duke's permission to cheer her horse at Ascot." Barred bluebloods saw red when divorced American Actor Douglas Fairbanks got into the enclosure. But there was nothing they could do. (Fairbanks got his passes through the U.S. embassy; had he been a British subject he would have stayed outside with his peers, Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Bertrand Russell and Randolph Churchill...
After half an hour of prayers and anthems, it was all over. Queen Elizabeth hurried away to prepare for Ascot Week festivities, and Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., returned to London and the humdrum 20th century business of being Prime Minister...
...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...