Word: horsiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Preakness Stakes, the toniest and richest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds this year. Purchased at the dispersal sale of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's famed stable last November, Dauber had not won a stake race this year for his new owner, William du Pont Jr., horsiest member of the Wilmington clan...
Last spring when his horses. Fairy Hill and Rosemont. won the $50,000 Santa Anita Derby and the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in quick succession, William du Pont Jr., whose reputation as the horsiest member of his Delaware clan had previously been based on his stable of steeplechasers, decided to open a race track of his own. Last week the new track, Delaware's first since the State Legislature legalized betting in 1935,* opened. In the feature race of opening day, some 20,000 spectators saw Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin's Strabo nose out John Hay Whitney...
...youth a wild-riding cavalryman, Persia's self-made "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi, who seized the Throne in 1925, is now the horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls...
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