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...seven starters sloshed through Texas mud to the barrier for the third race at Epsom Downs one day last week, every eye of the shivering crowd was on Out Bound and the peanut-sized figure astride him. Jockey Jack Westrope, a 16-year-old apprentice, had already ridden 299 winners in 1933. A five-day suspension for rough-riding had just expired. Now he was out to win his 300th race before the year end-a record only two other jockeys in U. S. and English racing history had made, the last in 1908. In the first two races...
...Epsom Downs, the new track near Houston, Tex., last week little Jack Westrope booted in winners 297, 298, 299. Then he mounted a chestnut filly named Miss Tulsa. Another horse named Fortunate Youth forced her wide at the turn, forged ahead. Jockey Westrope lifted Miss Tulsa into the lead again, but she was spent, finished fourth. Next day the Epsom Downs stewards suspended Westrope for five days for rough riding. That left him three racing days in which to score his 300th victory...
Divorced. Victor Emanuel, 35, president of U. S. Electric Power Corp., turfman (his entry ran third in last summer's Epsom Derby); by Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff Emanuel; in Reno. Grounds: desertion...
...seizing and kissing a young woman in a railway compartment when the train went through a tunnel. Sir Leo George Chiozza Money, 63, famed economist, editor, originator of Allied shipping strategy against German submarines in the War, was fined ?2 10s ($11.25) in Epsom, England...
...racing week for the King & Queen. Two days after the Derby they attended the 151st running of the Oak Stakes for fillies at Epsom Downs, watched E. T. Thornton-Smith's Chatelaine win by a length and a half...