Word: egret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billing at any other U. S. race track. But at Santa Anita, where everything is colossal, it plays second fiddle to the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, grand finale of the 57-day meet. As the field of 15 three-year-olds paraded to the post, Sun Egret was the favorite and William du Font's Dauber had a large following; but hunch players and a few sentimentalists were betting on Stagehand, a shiny bay colt owned by Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio...
...half-mile post, still in the ruck coming into the stretch. But the wiseacres had not counted on Stagehand's fine sense of drama. In time's nick, like the hero of a Wild West thriller, Stagehand lengthened out, swept wide around the pack, past Sun Egret, past Dauber, won by half a length...
Before plovers' eggs were put in a class with egret they, could be eaten (in season) at any smart London restaurant for the genteel price of one guinea ($5.10) per egg. "Plover" in restaurant parlance is a handy name for almost any "wader," vaguely similar to a snipe or sandpiper. The species most common in England (and the U. S.) is the ringed plover, "Billdeer." Crocodiles like plovers, not to eat but because the birds pick leeches and other parasites from saurian mouths. Also a sleepy crocodile knows that with a few plovers about it is safe to doze...