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...stake in the coursing meet is $1,500, well under the cash to be won on racing tracks in Miami. But for breeders the coursing meet outranks any race because its results determine supremacy of blood lines. Breeders' big money comes from the sale of pups. Untried pups from winning sires & dams bring up to $500. A breeder normally raises about one-third of every litter (from six to twelve whelps). The rest die naturally or are killed because they show no promise. No racing & coursing greyhound ever runs loose. It spends its first year in an enclosure, then...
...general counsel of RFC to take the $10,000 Solicitorship General. But public advancement meant more than money to Mr. Reed, who is the husband of the Registrar General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and in his own right a country squire and cattle breeder at home in Maysville, Ky. First called to Washington by President Hoover as counsel to the late Farm Board at $25.000 salary, he previously advanced under Democratic rule to the RFC at $12.500. Not so brilliant as some of the New Deal's younger legalites, his tall bulk appealed to tall, bulky...
...Breeder Prentice bought his first bull two decades ago. A handsome, impeccably pedigreed creature, it cost Breeder Prentice $10,000 and turned out to be sterile. That was probably the first come-uppance smart Mr. Prentice ever had. He was born 71 years ago, scion of an old Albany family in which pedigreed cattle had long been a hobby. He sped through Amherst and Harvard Law School, went to Chicago, got a reputation as one of the city's ablest and coldest young men, made friends with Cyrus McCormick, became general counsel for Illinois Steel. At the turn...
Admiral Grayson who had won his rank by sedulously tending Woodrow Wilson's health, had ceased to be an Admiral and gone back to his native Virginia to become a well-to-do squire and breeder of race horses. The reason he rode with the President-elect on that occasion was that Franklin Roosevelt knew of no one else who could manage his inaugural with better social grace and tact...
...Hoyt has a world-wide reputation as the leading poodle breeder of the U. S. Her Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen is one of the greatest in the world, champion of Switzerland, France, England, the U. S. While the socialites stood around, Mrs. Hoyt told how her prize poodle last winter had dragged his mistress on snowshoes all the way from her Katonah home to the New York Central railroad station in order to get to Boston in time to win another championship...