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...Club, in time for this week's Petworth handicap hurdles where her five-year-old Manicou is scheduled to run: Queen Elizabeth's racing colors, blue and buff with black cap and gold tassel. She was the first English queen to register since Queen Anne founded Royal Ascot...
Together with Ascot, his family home in Leighton Buzzard, Banker Anthony de Rothschild, third son of Leopold, turned over his "priceless" art collection (paintings by Hogarth, Rubens and Gainsborough, Ming and Sung dynasty Chinese porcelain, etc.) to the British National Trust...
...Ascot's Third to a Discussion. Anthony Eden, in the anecdotal way that Britons have, put the question very clearly last week. He leaned on the black leather dispatch box in the House of Commons and discussed the chances of civilization's survival in as casual a tone as if he were assessing the third race at Ascot. Said Eden...
...natural enough; his business card read "Dealer in precious stones." He had a lavishly furnished flat in London and a country home on an island in the Thames at Old Windsor. Bertie rode to hounds, cruised the river in his yacht, and was a familiar figure at the nearby Ascot track. Some of the best people went to his cocktail parties...
...Beatty ever since 1938 when he became the youngest (28) owner ever to win the Derby at Epsom Downs (with Bois Roussel). In that same year Peter's Foxglove II (purchased the night before the race from his good friend Prince Aly Khan) took the Gold Cup at Ascot. On that occasion, Peter invited 500 guests, including the Duke of Kent, to celebrate at a glittering ball in a specially built banqueting hall at his Regent's Park mansion...