Word: hari
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd of 60,000 citizens and notables arrived in full force. Six horses were scratched in the morning and early afternoon, including the Pacific Coast hope, Riskulus. leaving 13 limber-legged thoroughbreds to spring from the barrier as the crowd uttered one vast shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner, in the ruck with Mrs. Isabel Dodge...
...Mata Hari is a brown filly owned by Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). She won five out of her eight starts last year, among them the Lassie Stakes, Breeders' Futurity and the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, a stepping stone for such Derby winners as Twenty Grand. Point against her is that she is nervous in large fields, is said to be "so inbred she is her own aunt...
...Lexington, aged 22. And to all who talked to him last week, Colonel Bradley repeated his axiom: "Fillies are no good in the spring." For physiological reasons, it is hard to keep them in training. But everyone around the stables knew that largely due to Bazaar's, Mata Hari's and Wise Daughter's successes, among 2-year-olds 1933 had been "a filly year." They also knew that Kentucky's foxiest and most renowned horseman was hell-bent on another victorious drink out of the old Derby...
After a brilliant career which included the tracking down of Mata Hari Sir Basil retired, a Knight Commander of the Bath, in 1921. In 1925 he was the object of a cause célèbre of his own when lie was arrested in Hyde Park with one Thelma de Lava on charges of indecency, public impropriety and attempting to bribe a policeman. Knowing that Sir Basil was not only a distinguished sleuth but the son of a late Archbishop of York, the British Penny Press gloated. Sir Basil claimed a frame-up. He was fined ?5 and costs...
...chief one being its realistic handling, its sincere action. The spy is, in the first place, a very ordinary very pretty country girl, and so there is no mixing of ball-room and bedroom diplomatics with firing-squad angelics. Madeleine Carroll shows that a Flemish variety of Mata Hari can play around with secret codes, drink-befuddled German officers, and counter-spies without help of a Circle-like reputation, and without confusing the issues by failing in love with a young brave of the enemy...