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...Last year Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane was the big Saratoga winner. Last week, though her famed Cavalcade was still trying to get over his injuries in time to race Discovery later in the month...
Last year Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery was known to most racegoers as the horse that usually came in just after Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade. Actually, this was less a slur upon Discovery than upon the proverbial inattention of racegoers. Although it was true that Discovery was defeated by Cavalcade every time they met, he won consistently on other occasions, piled up $49,555 in prizes which made him the fifth biggest winner of 1934. This year, while Cavalcade has been in his stall, harassed by lameness, coughs and everything except a nervous breakdown, Discovery...
...father's death, he received the string of horses which she had raced under the name of the Sagamore Stable. An enthusiastic turfman, which the senior Vanderbilt was not, young "Al" promptly set out to enjoy his birthday presents. Because Cavalcade and High Quest made 1934 Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's year, the efforts of his horses that year were not spectacularly gratifying, but the $1,000,000 came in handy. Young Turfman Vanderbilt enlarged his racing string to 56. mostly with a parcel of yearlings bought from Walter J. Salmon. This year, Vanderbilt horses have...
...clubhouse were John D. Hertz, Jack Dempsey, Postmaster General Farley, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and J. H. Louchheim of Philadelphia, who bet $1,000 on his Morpluck and then contrived to lose his pari-mutuel tickets to a pickpocket who got no good out of them. A squad of National Guardsmen used clubs to keep the spectators in the infield under control. The spectators threw chairs at the guardsmen...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatrix Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 25, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonia, 23, of Rome, son of Manhattan's Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia...