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Died. Eugene James, 20, jockey who rode Col. Edward R. Bradley's Burgoo King to victory in the 1932 Kentucky Derby; by drowning while swimming in Lake Michigan; off Oak Street Beach, Chicago...
...Palm Beach Casino and breeds his racehorses at Idle Hour Farm, near Louisville, had, from 1920 up to last week, won the Derby three times and finished in the money two other times. Last week the axiom seemed a little less pertinent than usual. Col. Bradley's Burgoo King won a year ago but this year his only entrant was a horse called Broker's Tip who had failed to win in four starts as a two-year-old and placed second in his only race this spring. Odds on Broker's Tip were...
...Burgoo King, Col. E. R. Bradley's Derby-winning colt: the 41st Preakness, becoming the third horse in history to win both the Derby and the Preakness; at Pimlico...
...Burgoo King's time-2:05⅛-was comparatively slow but his victory made a record for his owner, Col. Bradley. In 1921 the Bradley horses Behave Yourself and Black Servant finished first and second in the Kentucky Derby. Two more Bradley horses-Bubbling Over and Bagenbaggage-did the same thing in 1926. No one else has ever owned three Derby winners. When Governor Ruby Laffoon congratulated him last week, Col. Bradley said he was particularly pleased because Burgoo King is a son of Bubbling Over...
...race-meeting for their benefit at Idle Hour Farm each autumn. Bland, dignified and equipped with a genuine Kentucky accent to match his genuine Kentucky colonelcy, Col. Bradley shows a wary reticence when talking to reporters. He has one superstition: all his horses have names begining with "B." Burgoo King was named for Jim Mooney, a Lexington grocer whose "burgoo"-a savory meat stew cooked for two days and sometimes seasoned with corn whiskey-is reputed Kentucky's best...