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...great grey Cadillacs glide up to great buildings. Top hats and spats swagger along Commonwealth, while Malacca canes set the pavements smarting. An ascot tie and a white pearl move slowly up the wide stone steps. Black velvet and grey feathers sweep to the sidewalk and a car door slams. young men with their fathers' money and fathers with fathers' money smile stiffly to one another. Cameras snap and the papers have a picture of a bent leg and averted gaze underneath a resounding name...
Reporters know that the little parallelogram of green lawn beside the Yacht Squadron is many times harder to get into than the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. Royal influence means nothing at all to the Squadron's admission committee. Sir Thomas Lipton, probably the best known yacht owner in the world, was one of Edward VII's best friends. Despite all King Edward's blustering, the squadron consistently refused to admit Sir Thomas. No reasons were ever given, but gossipeers said it was because Sir Thomas was "in trade," that his America's Cup racing was considered...
...potential rogue, a white-haired gentleman of 6. ft. 7 in., dressed in a clerical collar, a black-&-white ascot tie and a frock coat of curious cut, looked modestly down his long nose and held his gleaming silk hat on his knee...
...week. He summoned the Press to explain his annoyance. One of the Honorable George's charges, a horse by the name of Caerleon, had just won the Eclipse Stakes. That in itself was all right. But Caerleon has raced frequently this summer-in the Jubilee Stakes and during Ascot week-and not only failed to place but showed such bad form that he went to the post for the Eclipse Stakes quoted at 25 to 1 by the bookmakers, 43 to 1 on the totalizator. When Caerleon galloped in an easy winner British bettors raged; even the Jockey Club...
...medicinal reasons, therefore, coughing Caerleon had been entered in the Jubilee Stakes and at Ascot. Suddenly as he trotted to the post for the Eclipse Stakes, coughing Caerleon felt ever so much better...