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...Lonely Art. Modest, somber-eyed Jimmy Kilroe, 44, has earned the respect of horsemen and horseplayers the hard way. A New Yorker born and bred, he learned the lonely art of handicapping under one of the best handicappers of them all, the late John Blanks Campbell.* Beginning at the job of taking race entries and keeping files, Kilroe was soon making up handicap weights of his own, comparing his judgment with Campbell's. And he learned early that his boss insisted on an aide with opinions of his own. When he returned from the wars in 1945, a veteran...
...High Veldt and win the $78,820 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, richest race on British turf. Once the runt of the stables of Marchese Mario Incisa della Rochetta, Ribot has now earned $195,000, and his short, ungainly frame looks so attractive to foreign horsemen that the marchese has received offers up to $1,428,000 for him, a world-record price for any race horse. But Ribot has been designated a live and kicking "national monument," may not be sold outside his homeland. The disappointed marchese has decided to retire him to stud...
Elsewhere on the Yard sporting scene '31 proved itself to be better than average. The polo team was provided with numerous aspirants, and by the end of the fall Captain Elbridge T. Gerry and his horsemen had ridden roughshod over all comers...
Under the leadership of Virginia, which presented an idea, not a plan, they have ridden off like headless horsemen into the woods of nullification-even though they call it interposition-and in the pursuit of every evasion of the decree that slick, if not smart, lawyers may devise. Nobody has proposed firing upon Sumter again, but the spirit of secession is there: secession from the moral conscience of the rest of the country and indeed of the world that is giving men of color -who far outnumber us of the white race-their civil rights, their right to be free...
...caparisoned horsemen and another 5,000 on foot flowed out to Kaduna's racecourse and polo field to parade and maneuver before the Queen. In wave after wave, each gaudier and more dashing than the one before, they marched and charged before the royal box, where their leaders paused to salute, then move on. From a raised pavilion, the Queen accepted the homage of, among others, the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv, the Och of Idoma and the Etsu Nupe...