Word: bahrain
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Last year the Aga Khan was especially pleased with Bahrain's victory because it was Jubilee year. Last week's Derby, though bookmakers estimated that more money had been bet on the race than ever before, was the gloomiest since the War. The huge crowd-perching on the tops of automobiles or busses, milling about fortune tellers' tents in the central enclosure, raising a great grey haze of dust above the Downs-was less rowdy than usual. The glass-enclosed box, where the Aga Khan last year received congratulations from his King, was banked with flowers...