Word: hollyrood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DeSota, entitled by lot to the pole position in the first heat. Two horses were so unmanageable that the judges had to set down and replace their drivers, Veteran Doc Parshall and Amateur Dunbar Bostwick, trotting enthusiast of the Long Island polo family, who was driving his bay filly, Hollyrood Audrey, in his first Hambletonian...
...Hollyrood Dennis won a heat in 2:01¼ but lost the race to The Marchioness...
...last turn, and Jockey Jimmy Stout on Granville made his bid. Granville caught the leader, John Hay Whitney's Mr. Bones. Then down the stretch, while 35,000 people shouted, he outran his own bad luck. Mr. Bones was two and a half lengths back at the finish, Hollyrood was third...
...outside, the leaders rushed past her. Driver Ben White got her back into stride, then set out after the, field, caught it on the second stretch. Tired by a blistering quarter-mile after her break, Mary Reynolds led Brown Berry to the last turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck and set out after her. As Mary spun around the turn, Driver Egan desperately cut Brown Berry inside her. At the same time Hollyrood Portia swung wide outside her. Three abreast, they drove down the stretch like a cinema chariot race. While the crowd roared...
Favorites in last week's Hambletonian were Mrs. Ralph Keeler's three-year-old filly Marchioness and John L. Dodge's colt Hollyrood Dennis. Will Caton driving Marchioness won the first heat. Hollyrood Dennis won the second. Two out of three heats usually decide the Hambletonian but in the third heat last week Hollyrood Dennis broke (started to gallop) 200 yds. from the wire and interfered with Marchioness, pocketed behind him while Invader, a field horse, won. Marchioness, Hollyrood Dennis and Invader lined up for the fourth heat. After two false starts, they were fairly away. Caton...
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