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Herbert Finberg '36, of Haverhill; Robert W. Furlong '37, of W. Roxbury; Emile P. Gauthier '38, of N. Cheimsford; Howard P. Hall '36, of Dorchester; James A. Hamill '38, of Quincy; Charles A. Haskins '36, of Cambridge; John B. Hawkins '36, of Worcester; Maurice H. Heins '37, of Dorchester; Stephen Helburn '37, of Cambridge; Jacob Horowitz '38, of New Bedford; Leavitt Howard '36, of Hingham Center; William C. Huntting '37, of Watertown; John Q. Jordan '37, of Lawrence; Stanley S. Kanter '38, of Mattapan; Mortimer Kaplan '36, of Springfield; Charles W. Kessler '37, of Salem...
...Brooklyn Handicap, he set a world's record for a mile and a furlong (1:48.2), beat both King Saxon, fastest sprinter of the year, and Omaha, winner of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Week later, in the Detroit Chal lenge Cup, he beat Azucar, winner of last winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest...
...Khan's 1930 Derby winner, Blenheim, went to the post at the phenomenally low odds, for a 16-horse race, of 5-to-4. He broke well, was in fourth place going downhill toward Tattenham Corner, came into the straightaway third, took the lead from Field Trial a furlong from the wire, won by two lengths with a 50-10-1 shot, Sir Abe Bailey's Robin Goodfellow, second...
Major Noel Furlong's Reynoldstown, a big black steeplechaser, bred by his modestly well-to-do owner in Ireland, was ridden by Major Furlong's son, a onetime officer in the Ninth Lancers, who finished second in the Grand National of 1933. In need of the ,?6.570 first prize for his forthcoming wedding, Gentleman Jockey Frank Furlong galloped strongly through the last heart-breaking uphill 300 yards. At the finish, Reynoldstown was first by three lengths. Said Frank Furlong: "I don't know...
...Washington, reporters gaped at the Right Honorable Alfred Byrne, against whose predictions any bookmaker would gladly have bet at odds of 1,000-to-1. Said he, less modest than Frank Furlong: "Anyone with half an eye could see that Reynoldstown would...