Word: hambletonian
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...slightly bent man with wispy white hair and Santa Claus eyes, Bi Shively has won "scores" of trots and paces. But he had never managed to win the richest harness race of all-the Hambletonian classic, which determines the top three-year-old U.S. trotter. In 1947 he copped the Hambletonian's first heat, but he failed to repeat and take...
...Dearborn Manufacturer Clyde W. Clark, was good enough. At Santa Anita this spring, Sharp Note won two starts, and set a track record for three-year-old trotters-a 2 min. 2 4/5 sec. mile-the fastest race time posted this year by any of the Hambletonian's 14 starters...
...painting horses, his specialty over a career of more than 50 years, 18th Century English Artist George Stubbs was never headed by any other in the field. For a lot of Londoners last week, Stubbs's life-size portrait of the great English race horse, Hambletonian,* ran away with a big show of Royal Academy masterpieces. Alongside the drawing-room elegance of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stubbs's picture of two grooms rubbing down the champion seemed as pleasantly direct and fresh as a breeze from green grass. Opined Daily Mail Critic Pierre Jeanneret...
...limited to horses. He was a qualified medical lecturer on human anatomy, did the technical illustrations for his friend Dr. John Burton's Essay Towards a Complete New System of Midwifery. He was a vigorous 75 when he executed his 7-by-12-ft. canvas of Hambletonian, after the horse's last triumphant win at Newmarket. Seven years later Stubbs died; his final ambitious project, half finished at his death, was to have been 30 anatomical tables contrasting the structure of the human body with that of the tiger and the fowl...
...confused with his distant cousin, Hambletonian 10, the famous 19th Century American trotting sire, for which the annual harness horse classic at Goshen, N.Y., is named...