Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the race the crowd observed the custom of tramping afoot around the world's most dangerous steeplechase course. They swarmed past Becher's Brook-named for the Captain Becher who, spilled by his mount in the 1839 running, dived into the stream to escape being trampled by following horses-past Valentine's, past the deadly Canal Turn, where as many as 22 horses have failed in a single race, round to the water jump before the stands. Next day 36 horses started to make the same circuit twice. Only 13 succeeded...
...small Irish jumper, Sir Francis Towle's Airgead Sios, raced ahead of the field at the start. Jump after jump he took beautifully until the tenth fence, just beyond Valentine's Brook, there he fell and threw his jockey. Delachance, the American favorite, swept into the lead, was still pacing the pack over the water jump before the grandstand, when Rock Lad, only Canadian-owned horse in the race, fell. He crawled out with a broken back. An ambulance drove out on the track to destroy him and remove his body, as Delachance led 18 survivors...
...them past Becher's Brook Then another American horse, Battleship (son of Man o' War), a small chestnut stallion who began his career as a flat racer, pulled ahead. At Canal Turn, Royal Mail- whose former owner, Hugh Lloyd Thomas, was killed while training to ride the race, whose jockey fractured a collarbone last month-succumbed to his jinx. He burst a blood vessel and pulled out of the race...
...expected that the Crimson will have their hands full in turning the tables on the sextet which beat them to the decisive tune of 6-3 at the Brook-lynn Ice Palace during their Christmas Vacation excursion...
...then charged down a convenient hill. Unfortunately some of the group were so tired by this maneuvering that they were able to take little part in the battle which ensued. Only eight showed up for the actual attack, anyway, since one fell in a dump and another in a brook...