Word: epsom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coronation, and the Queen celebrated by going to the races to root for her brown colt, Landau. Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill cut short a Cabinet meeting so that he and his ministers could join her. Like the British royal family, like Winnie, like England itself, the Derby at Epsom Downs is an old show that still seems always fresh and exciting...
...science, bureaucracy and his own invention. He refused to reveal the secret formula, but identified the main ingredients as anhydrous sodium sulphate and "a slightly basic, nearly anhydrous magnesium sulphate." That, snapped Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a licensed pharmacist, "is nothing but Glauber's salt and Epsom salts. One of them you give to horses, and the other you give to people." Ritchie said he didn't think so, but added that seven "secret trace elements" furnished the real kick to his powder, he thought...
Gene Tierney, looking unusually tweedy, and impeccably top-hatted Aly Khan were still following the horses. After a three-week vacation at Aly's stud farm in Ireland, they turned up at England's Epsom Downs race course. Object: to root home one of Aly's thoroughbreds...
Died. Fred Darling, 69, one of Britain's greatest racehorse trainers, whose Beckhampton stables produced eight Epsom Derby winners, including this year's Pinza (TIME, June 15); of a lung hemorrhage; in Beckhampton, England...
Over the roller-coaster mile-and-a-half turf of Epsom Downs, Jockey Richards and Pinza justified their bettors' faith. At the last turn, famed Tattenham Corner, Richards saved ground by snugging close along the curving rail. In the stretch. where Richards' other horses have been tiring for a generation, Pinza proved to be a stayer. At the finish, Richards had his first Derby winner, by four lengths. Second in the field of 27: Queen Elizabeth's Aureole...