Word: colts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite was Challedon. Though a year younger than his rivals, he had already earned more money ($242,000) than either of them, had already broken the world's record for a mile-and-three-sixteenths. More important to sentimental, superstitious racing fans, the big bay colt was bred at nearby Walkersville, had always shown a fondness for the Pimlico track. There he turned his first big trick, when he won the Pimlico Futurity as a two-year-old. There he became the darling of Maryland by beating undefeated Johnstown in the Preakness last spring...
Prancy as a Blue Grass colt, "Happy" Chandler is a natural politician. In politics he has the easy grace of Joe DiMaggio coasting under a long fly-ball, the same talent of making the tough ones look easy. To him handshaking is not a nuisance but a passionate delight. He knows the first name (and even the children's names) of nearly every person in Kentucky of voting age-not just because it's good political business, but because he likes to know. To him speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play...
...Colt Wagnor is stroking another crew, backed by Hinckley, Taylor, Riggs, Bremar, Simmons, Marshall, and Steilles. Riggs was on the powerful Freshman crew of two years ago, but he didn't row last year because of the press of scholastic work. Incidentally he is a high ranking scholar. Simmons rowed on the victorious Kent School Henley crew of 1938 but he was ineligible to row last year...
Accepting the $21,000 first-place money, Peter Astra's owner, Dr. Lowry Miller Guilinger, a 70year-old horse-&-buggy doctor from the Ohio sticks, announced that he had just refused a foreign-syndicate offer of $37,500 for the bay colt he had bought as a yearling for $3,250. Outstanding two-year-old of 1938, Little Pete, who wears his forelock ribbon-braided like a pickaninny's, has been undefeated in five races this year (he has not lost a heat or once broken his stride, even in scoring). Winner of $47,000 so far this...
...horses that he has oil paintings made of all his great racers, has prints made from them for Christmas presents. So horse-minded is he that when his wife, one of Baltimore's famed Cryder triplets, bore him a son after four daughters, he wired his friends: "Fine colt born this morning." Sometimes he names horses after his very good friends. One year he had two especially fine colts. One he named Sir Ashley, after Sir Ashley Sparks, U. S. resident director of the Cunard Line. The other he named Sir Andrew, after one of his blackest, most bowlegged grooms...