Word: colts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While waiting for the board of director to asemble on the morrow, Mr. Birtwhistle--his wife always called him dear Godwin--did a bit of drinking, went with the boys to some leg shows, and began to feel young and chipper as a colt...
...impulse that had made Mr. Thaw bring a gun along that night must always remain a little vague. It was a regulation Colt six-shooter and he had his hand on it as he threaded his way among the tables toward the place where Stanford White was sitting. That he had a certain amount of justification for what, at that moment, he was about to do, the jury admitted when they handed in their decision, but the allegations he made against the dead architect at the trial, and which he repeats in this book, have never been conclusively proved. There...
...Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, the Aga Khan III, offered £100,000 last week to Sir John Rutherford for his colt Solario ?was refused...
...Yorkers smiled indulgently at this declaration; they knew they had a horse worth a dozen Bubbling Overs; a horse that won the Hopeful and the Futurity last year; a small-hooved, huge-thewed bay colt by Sun Briar out of Cleopatra, who arrived in Louisville in a private car padded with silver canvas. They mentioned the morning that this horse had taken his first workout in the chill dews of seven o'clock- a morning when the trainer had stood at the rail, frantically signaling Watson the exercise boy, to slow down, while the split-second gentry compared watches...
They were almost at the mile now; it was time for the lightning bay to make his bid. But what was this? Another colt, far back in the ruck, had begun to gain with an effortless, terrific stride, two jumps to one. Nobody could see the jockey's colors. Was this one of the unknowns - Light Carbine, Roy crofter? They came around the last corner into the homestretch; the strange horse wore E. R. Bradley's silks - he was Bagen-baggage, running-mate of Bubbling Over. Mr. W. R. Coe looked out, ashen-faced, from his box; Pompey...