Word: handicaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gienn's legs, you know, were severely burned in a fire when he was a little fellow. Some thought he would never walk again, but his determination to overcome this handicap has not only enabled him to walk but to become the king of American milers. His legs, though, are full of new tissue and new blood vessels, and consequently his blood circulation is very poor...
Santa Anita's Handicap last week was the climax of its third and best season...
...cooker," like the ones used to melt asphalt on highways, with six blast torches to dry out the ground. At Santa Anita, called the world's best racetrack, 18 miles northeast of Los Angeles, all this was part of the world's richest horserace: the Santa Anita Handicap...
...promoters, chief among whom are Cinema Producer Hal Roach and a onetime San Francisco chain-parlor dentist named Charles Strub. Last year, Santa Anita bettors wagered more than $25,000,000, of which the State took $1,000,000. Last week, bets on the Handicap alone were $396,553, a record. Santa Anita's backers have put much of their profits into improvements. This year they are spending $25,000 on Peruvian olive trees in the paddock, Bird of Paradise plants on the terraces. Santa Anita's $50,000 to the 1936 Los Angeles Community Chest was that...
...Santa Anita has been a bonanza for its backers, it has been even more spectacularly profitable, in the past week, for a young race horse owner whose stable has never before ranked high on the list of U. S. money-winners. A few days before Rosemont won the Handicap, William du Pont's Fairy Hill won the third Santa Anita Derby, one of the second richest U. S. races, on Washington's Birthday, for which the stake was $62,000 (TIME, March 1). It was the first time one owner had won both of Santa Anita...