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...April 15, 1935). "Miss Mary" was absent from Louisville last week because her own charges were running at Jamaica, L. I. But to ride her-father's Derby entry, Bold Venture, she sent her contract apprentice jockey whom she herself had trained, tiny 18-year-old Ira ("Babe") Hanford. Four days before, at Jamaica, Jockey Hanford had brought Trainer Mary Hirsch her first double vic tory.* This time, in his first appearance in a major race, he was determined to bring Trainer Max Hirsch his first Derby though Bold Venture had never before won an important stake, had earned...
...post Jockey Hanford took a quick look at Brevity pawing the ground nervously while his blinkers were being adjusted. At the break the 14 horses jammed, one jockey was unseated. The crowd gasped as the favorite was nearly knocked to his knees. Another horse caromed into Bold Venture. Trailing the field, Hanford steadied him, worked up to eighth place at the quarter-mile, maneuvered Bold Venture into the lead at the half-mile. At the mile Brevity drew up alongside. The horses' necks bobbed and stretched in uni son down the stretch. But Hanford man aged to keep Bold...
...collect $43 for every $2 wager, longest Derby odds since 1918. Bold Venture earned $37,725, got a blanket of roses, the privilege of having his name on the Churchill Downs gate five panels away from that of his half-brother Twenty Grand, winner in 1931. Jockey Hanford, undismayed by a 15-day suspension given him for "rough riding," chortled: "They've suspended me? They've set me down? Well, I guess I'll go out in the barn and spend the 15 days feeding sugar to that horse...
Recent developments in the Curley bombing outrage came last night with the issuance of a statement by Dean Hanford concerning the attitude of the University toward undergraduate bombing. Dean Hanford produced the statement which follows in response to inquiries into the Governor Curley vs Harvard Freshmen candy bomb case. The statement is: "Following the University's usual policy, no statement concerning disciplinary action on undergraduates will be made...
...statement by Dean Hanford was issued as follows...