Word: barony
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matched his skill against the top-notch jockeys of the country at all the Eastern tracks, is the second highest money winner ($250,000) as well as the leading rider. Ever since 1935 when he made his Eastern debut by winning five out of six races on Bert Baroni's Top Row, Johnny Longden has been in great demand. A contract rider for the famed Wheatley Stable until two months ago, he is now under contract to Don Cameron, trainer for the stables of Mrs. John Hertz, Vera Bragg and J. Shirley Riley, at $17,000 a year-highest...
...Santa Anita Park, near Los Angeles. A crowd of 40,000, including not only cinema notables but scores of leading turf people from all over the country, watched Goldeneye's victory. It was the second $5,000 Christmas Stakes purse in a row for his owner, Albert Anthony Baroni, whose Top Row, after winning it last year, went on to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in February...
Albert Anthony Baroni is a carefully-tailored gentleman whose wise, sunburned Latin face has grown increasingly familiar to track followers for the past five years. Long ago, Mr. Baroni ran a restaurant in Reno, Nev. With the profits, he bought racehorses which he, himself, trained and ran at minor tracks. He first attracted national attention in 1933 when in Chicago he was arrested, indicted but never tried for giving horses heroin. By that time, track followers had noticed one remarkable thing about Mr. Baroni: His stable was being run at a consistent profit. However, any suspicion that this was disproportionately...
...gallery. As a racehorse, Top Row had appeared mainly in "claiming" races- minor events for mediocre horses in which each entry is for sale at a specified price, for which he can be claimed by anyone who wants him. In these his efforts had been so undistinguished that Mr. Baroni got him for the modest sum of $3,500. He took the horse to California with the rest of his string. Top Row promptly began to win races. A small, unimpressive, 4-year-old bay colt, he returned to the East last summer to run against horses...
...advised his client to further her social aspirations by sponsoring an opera company. Mrs. Claypool gives $200,000 to the director of the company (Siegfried Rumann), who signs up famed Lassparri and his sweetheart, Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Meanwhile, by mistake, Groucho has signed an unknown tenor, Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones), who also loves Rosa. Ricardo, his friend Chico, and Harpo, discharged valet of Lassparri, stow away in Groucho's trunk when the opera company sets out for New York from Milan. What follows in the course of one of the most complicated feature comedies ever photographed concerns the efforts...