Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Delphic tip by the devout, erudite, horse-loving Marquess of Zetland, was less profound than it sounded. All it meant was that Colombo, Lord Glanely's unbeaten favorite, was named after the capital of Ceylon and that the two second choices were the Maharajah of Rajpipla's Windsor Lad and the Agha Khan's Umidwar. The man who had more real interest in the race than anyone else in the world thought so little of the Marquess's tip that he did exactly the opposite...
...varies with how its horse finishes the race : holders of tickets on the horses finishing first, second and third win $150,000, $75,000 and $50.000 each, respectively; ticket-holders on the remaining 68 horses entered get $2.600 each on a $2.50 investment. A person holding a ticket on Colombo last week could keep it on the chance that Colombo would win the top prize for him or he could sell it. in full or in part, for a sum based on the bookmaker's odds against Colombo's winning...
...Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday on his estate at Old Windsor, watched his horse and smiled. At the head of the stretch, the crowd saw three horses- Windsor Lad, Lord Woolavington's Easton and Colombo-pound out in front of the field. In the stretch Colombo was running splendidly and catching up on the other two. At the finish-in 2:34 to equal last year's track record-Windsor Lad was still ahead with Easton second and Colombo third...
...Windsor Lad. A Holland Tunnel policeman who had sold "Duggie" for $6.500 a half interest in his ticket on the winning horse got only $82.000. A 7-year-old Manhattan schoolboy won $75,000 with a ticket on Easton. A Long Island City mailcarrier sold his ticket on Colombo for $51,-ooo, the amount he would have won had he held it. A Manhattan janitor supplied variations in the usual lottery story by discovering, after his name had been given to the Press as winner of $75,000 with a ticket on Easton, that the ticket was not really...
Died. Sir Graeme Thomson, 58, Governor of Ceylon; in Colombo, Ceylon. As Wartime director of British shipping, he moved some 1,000,000 men by sea without mishap, was called "the greatest transport officer since Noah...