Word: blenheims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news made Dougherty a name to conjure with in Brooklyn.* Edward P. Dougherty, 19, shiny-haired, tight-collared, $20-per-week clerk in a broker's office, paid $1 for a ticket in the Canadian Army & Navy Veterans' Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. The ticket drew Blenheim, won $149,262. Edward P. Dougherty told the news to his father, Daniel, an apartment house doorman, and his brother Daniel Jr., another broker's clerk. Instantly, in their four-room apartment, they fell to arguing...
...laid a yellow span on the midway-a span that moved like a pacemaker in front of the chasing horses with the tiny bright-colored jockeys pressed against their necks. The crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared as a new horse moved out of the pack-Blenheim, the Aga Khan's second-stringer. Surely, easily, Blenheim, ridden by Harry Wragg, who won the Derby in 1928 with Felstead, crept up, then moved in front, by a shadow, by a nose, then by a good length, crossed the line, with Iliad second, Diolite a staggering, gasping third...