Word: blenheims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horses in the world, promptly followed it with an understatement: "My ambition was to win the Derby thrice and I have done it in 13 short years." The Aga Khan has been trying to win the Derby since 1923 but he has won it thrice in seven starts. His Blenheim won in 1930, his Bahram a year...
Mahmoud is a son of Blenheim. Smirke is the jockey who, on Windsor Lad in 1934, equaled the record-2 min. 34 sec.- for the ½;-mile Derby course. Last week, after a delay at the post which alarmed radio announcers scheduled to follow the account of the race at 3 p. m. with the departure of the Queen Mary (see p. 17) at 3:15, the field got away smoothly. On a track baked rocky hard, following the Aga Khan's instructions, Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took...
...been supplied by Lord Derby whose Bobsleigh was considered the one horse in last week's Derby which had a chance of beating unbeaten Bahram. When Bobsleigh was scratched, Bahram, a bay three-year-old by Blandford, who also sired the Aga Khan's 1930 Derby winner, Blenheim, went to the post at the phenomenally low odds, for a 16-horse race, of 5-to-4. He broke well, was in fourth place going downhill toward Tattenham Corner, came into the straightaway third, took the lead from Field Trial a furlong from the wire, won by two lengths...
...least among the reasons for the estrangement last year of the late Duke of Marlborough and his Boston-born Duchess was the insistence of Her Grace that the family spaniels be allowed to breed in the Bow Window Room of monumental Blenheim Palace. Last week, two months after her husband's death, the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough was discovered living in a secluded farmhouse outside Oxford. With her were 80 Blenheim spaniels...
...Blenheim, Britain's sift in 1704 to the great first Duke, the Marlboroughs pay annual rent to George V of a banner emblazoned with three "flower-de-luces" (fleur...