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...coat which glistens golden in the sun. Medium-sized, slouchy, sleepy-looking, he is distinguished less by his appearance than by his character, breeding and performance. His ancestry is British. His father was Lancegaye who finished second to Coronach in the Derby of 1926. His mother, Hastily, was in foal when she was bought at Newmarket, England, by F. Wallis Armstrong, who brought her to Moorestown, N. J. where Cavalcade was born in March...
...coop, high in the old gimcrack stands, Cavalcade's statistics flashed out to the world. His time for the 1¼ mi. was 2104 flat, no derby record. He was the second English-bred horse to win the race, having been imported in utero when Hastily was in foal to Lancegaye. Only other imported winner was Omar Khayyam (1917). Winner of all this year's three starts as a 3-year-old, Cavalcade received $28,175 of the $37,000 Derby purse. In addition, jubilant Mrs. Sloane, first woman to win the Derby since Mrs. Payne Whitney...
...great Middle White champion boar, Wharfedale Deliverance, beaten at last by his own daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly twelve small copies which sold for $450 to $1,700 each...
...November 24, 1924, a common mule on the farm of W. J. Kilian of Weenen, Natal, gave birth to a male foal. . . . The mule in question ... is a typical mule in every way and has a considerable preponderance of the characteristics of the ass. . . . The foal grew rapidly and is now a reliable riding horse, practically indistinguishable from a pure horse...
...This year the same mule, which is about 15 years old, gave birth to a second male foal, and this foal was sired by a different stallion from that of the first foal. Thus, between the births of the two foals there has been an interval of seven years, although the mule has been repeatedly served. ... It would seem as though South Africa were in some way favorable for mule fertility...