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...Remembers. By Captain Cornelius W. Willemse. E. P. Dutton...
...William Robertson Coe's racehorse Osculator: the $10,000 Havre de Grace handicap at 20-to-1, by a length, from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny'') Whitney's famed Equipoise; before a record crowd of 25,000 come to see Equipoise run his farewell race before being retired to stud. Equipoise's total winnings, $322,970, make him fourth biggest moneymaker in turf history...
...smartest racing crowd of the year saw Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Singing Wood win the richest race-the $103,300 Futurity for two-year-olds-at odds of 12 to i with Sir Thomas, a 50-to-1 shot, second by a head and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Roustabout, third...
There were only five horses in the race and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Equipoise, the 1 to 5 favorite, had beaten most of them before. So there was not a great deal of betting on the Hawthorne Gold Cup Race at Cicero, Ill.., last week. Nonetheless, because victory would make Equipoise the fourth largest money-winning horse in the U. S. track history, the crowd at Hawthorne-which has failed to attract its share of Chicago's visitors this summer because of Cicero's unsavory Capone reputation-was larger than usual. At the post Equipoise, instead...
Preceding the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. on the list of those entering the Class of 1937, stands that of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, his cousin, and son of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Both graduated from the same class at Groton. Other sons of prominent men in the class are: Gaspar G. Bacon, Jr., whose father is Lieutenant - Governor of Massachusetts; Bruce Bliven, Jr., son of the president and editor of the New Republic; and O. R. Cohen, Jr., whose father is the author of many negro stories and a contributor to the Saturday Evening Post. R. H. Gardiner...