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This sage hint for the Grand National was given by an old trainer to Count Charles Kinsky, who won the race with his own mare, Zoedone, in 1883. Another scrap of the lore which has grown up since 1839 around the hardest steeplechase in the world-four and one-half miles over 30 jumps at Aintree, England-is not to ride a favorite. Most Grand National winners have been outsiders. At Aintree this week the favorites-Miss Dorothy Paget's Golden Miller and Mrs. M. A. Gemmell's Gregalach, the winner...
...smallness of the field emphasized the fact that the Grand National-partly because in the U. S. steeplechasing has lagged behind flat-racing-has become almost as much of an event for U. S. owners as it is for British. There were nine U. S.-owned horses in the list of final acceptances last week. One of them, Mrs. Thomas H. Somerville's Trouble Maker, had a chance to take from Rubio, the 1908 winner, the distinction of being the only U. S.-bred horse ever to win at Aintree. Only two U. S. owners-Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford...
Waiting for the parade to the post this week Jock Whitney will have good reason to have faith in Jockey Bostwick and Dusty Foot. They won one of the most significant tests for the Grand National, the Open Hunters' Steeplechase at Sandown, month ago. Last fortnight they finished second in the National Hunt Steeplechase at Cheltenham (TIME, March 20). But Jock Whitney's excitement as he watches the field, cluttered at the start, narrow off toward Melling Road, will be evidence also of his faith in something even less tangible than Dusty Foot's chances in this...
Jock Whitney's racing career started in 1929 when he financed Jack Anthony, famed British trainer and oldtime jockey, the only man alive who has won the Grand National thrice, to start a stable of steeplechasers for him at Wantage, England. They almost won the Grand National on their first try but Easter Hero, leading a record field of 66, twisted a plate (which now hangs on the door of his stall at Langollen), limped home second. In the U. S., Jock Whitney began to build his string after his marriage to utterly horsy Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus...
...child, raise cattle. Rustlers steal the cattle. John organizes a posse, hangs three rustlers. The rustlers burn the cabin, cause the baby to die of shock. John & Mary build a new cabin, have four more children. In course of time. John is nominated for Governor. When he gives a grand reception and one of the guests is a handsome brunette named Senora Martinez (Mona Maris), it comes out amazingly that John has been philandering. Even more amazingly it turns out that Mary has known about it all along. The scandal fails to disturb, for more than a moment, John...