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...taking a bad jump happened to Sea Soldier and Reel Foot at the same time: the riders checked a little, the horses made rough, desperate lunges to carry, and threw the men. All that Jockey Skinner on Soissons had to do was put the chestnut carefully over the brook and the shallow finish fence and down the midway to win. Reel Foot and Sea Soldier galloped riderless to the finish, Sea Soldier reaching the judges' stand just behind the winner. Brose Hover took second in spite of his fall. For five minutes the judges stood around in the rain...
...Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, wrote therein every day for two years of Fourier's plans for the development of small cooperative communities (called Associations), in which manual labor should be dignified, social distractions nonexistent. At Freehold, N. J. Albert Brisbane founded such a community, forerunner of famed Brook Farm at West Roxbury, Mass...
While the brook trout fishermen of other states were thinking up surprises for fish, a surprise for the 200,000 stream-whippers and worm-danglers of New York State was in preparation last week. Elaborating on President Hoover's public-spirited idea of shortening the interval between bites (TIME, Oct. 6), Conservation Commissioner Henry Morgenthau Jr. was training a platoon of public servants to assist unskilled fishermen to find fish and catch them. The State has 150 fish and game protectors. It was Commissioner Morgenthau's idea to put these individuals into uniforms-brown whipcord cut like...
...they stood for a few seconds jostling at the line, then broke in the confusion of a false start. A moment later the field broke again, this time gathering speed and narrowing together as they went past Sefton Yard. Every horse went over the first fence. At Becher's Brook, Swift Roland fell and was killed when the horse behind him landed on his head. The first time past the stands, Easter Hero was ahead, with Gregalach second and Grakle, Shaun Goilin (last year's winner), Solanum, and a half-dozen others bunched close behind...
...they went "into the country" for the second time, Grakle began to move up. At Becher's Brook again, Solanum fell, then Easter Hero. Great Span went down at the Canal fence. At Valentine's Brook Drin fell with a broken leg, was later shot. Coming into the "race course," the long gentle curve that ends the 47-mile Grand National steeplechase, Gregalach, Grakle and Ballasport were in the lead together. R. Lyall up on Grakle cleared the last fence first, swung in to the rail...