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...Paris, Ky., on the day the Gallant Fox Memorial Handicap was being run at Jamaica, Belair Stud's great bay stallion Gallant Fox died at the age of 27. One of the few thoroughbreds ever to win racing's Triple Crown (The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1930), the Fox of Belair also was the first such winner to sire another; his son, Omaha, turned the trick...
...York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and win the 65th running of the season's juvenile classic, the Futurity...
...back to the front pages by slapping a $7,000 suit on one of his clients. The client: Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, who had commissioned a Dali portrait of herself, and then declined to pay when it was completed. Snapped husband William Woodward Jr., who recently inherited the Belair racing stable of his banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort of slapped together in unpleasant, grey, grim colors . . . We wouldn't have had it if Dali paid us." At his summer home on Spain...
Died. William Woodward, 77, millionaire Wall Street banker and breeder of thoroughbred race horses, whose Belair Stud farm produced three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox in 1930, Omaha in 1935, Johnstown in 1939); in Manhattan...
...rare spirit of hospitality, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick opened the doors of his high-paneled office last week to an inquiring visitor. The visitor: New York Timesman Felix Belair Jr. Because he had a cold, the Colonel kept Reporter Belair at a respectful 15 feet to protect him from germs. But he let him have some gems of McCormick wisdom...