Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budding jockeys, U.S. horsemen more and more are importing riders from south of the border. This season five top U.S. stables-Cain Hoy. Greentree, Bohemia, Fred W. Hooper and Gustave Ring-are employing Latin jockeys. Mexico-bred Milo Valenzuela, 28, is the regular rider for Mrs. Richard du Font's Kelso, three-time Horse of the Year, and for Hirsch Jacobs' Affectionately, top candidate for Filly of the Year. Mexican American Herberto Hinojosa, 26, was the leading jockey (61 wins in 229 tries) at Florida's Tropical Park this winter, won more than...
...Kelso: the $109,750 John B. Campbell Handicap, at Maryland's Bowie Race Course, thus becoming the third-biggest money winner in U.S. racing history (behind Round Table and Nashua). Carrying 131 lbs., Mrs. Richard C. du Font's great gelding rushed from behind to nip Crimson Satan by three-quarters of a length. The victory, Kelso's second in a $100,000-added race within a week, was worth $71,337-pushing his total winnings...
Last night was the beginning of the CRIMSON'S winter competition. Students had the opportunity of visiting the font of literary training where such men as Faulkner, Heming-way, Ellot, Frost, Updike, and John F. Kennedy first published their works...
...Slowed down this season by a leg injury and a virus infection, Kelso-Mrs. Richard C. du Font's five-year-old gelding-won only five races in eleven starts, but still swept the voting for Horse of the Year for an unprecedented third straight year. A great-grandson of Man o' War, Kelso needs only $30,000 more to become the fifth millionaire (others: Round Table, Nashua, Citation, Carry Back) in U.S. racing history...
...chief executive, Copeland succeeds Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, 60, the son-in-law of onetime President Irénéé du Pont; Greenewalt moves up to chairman of the board after 14 years as president. While Greenewalt will "guide policy decisions," Du Font's operations will be run by Copeland, who joined the family firm shortly after graduating from Harvard (B.S. in engineering, '28) and, save for a four-month layoff during the Depression, has been with it ever since. The change, Du Pont executives say, was long scheduled, but hinged on the retirement of Walter S. Carpenter...