Word: bushers
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Mayer to Warner. L.B. watched intently, talked little, listened closely as his friend and lawyer, Neil McCarthy, bid up to $135,000 for the mare Busher. McCarthy figured he had a good buy even though the 1945 Horse of the Year was a semi-cripple. Said he: "I've already been offered $50,000 for her first foal. . . . What better investment could a man make?" Most other bids looked dizzily high. Mayer had picked a good time to sell...
Neck & neck down the stretch last week, battling to be the year's top money-winning racing-stable owner, came two beauty specialists: Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden and Movieman Louis B. Mayer. Arden's Star Pilot won the Belmont Futurity and $52,940. Mayer's Busher won the Hollywood Derby and $40,470 (to become the alltime tenth best moneywinner*). The dollar derby between the stables stood: Mayer $452,605, Arden...
...Whirlaway, $561,161; Seabiscuit, $437,730; Sun Beau, $376,744; Alsab, $350,015; Equipoise, $338,610; Challedon, $334,660; Phar Lap, $332,350; Gallant Fox, $328,165; Shut Out, $317,507; Busher...
Regarding her more as a broodmare than a racer, Moviemaker Louis B. Mayer bought Busher from Kentucky-Colonel...
...Bradley this spring for $50,000. Now, with her record winnings, Busher's tomboy days are numbered. Mayer hopes that she will get motherly after she is bred to his 18-year-old Australian stallion, Beau Pere, next year...