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...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair sold his entire string of 25 racehorses for the disappointing price of $81,300. He still retains his crack breeding farm at Jobstown. N. J., where lives Zev, winner of the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Reason for the Sinclair sale: Last month Saratoga race stewards looked askance when the Sinclair entry in the Burnt Hill handicap was discovered to be poisoned. They declared Sinclair's trainer responsible, but not culpable, for the horse's condition, barred the Sinclair stable from entering horses in races overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Free at last of all charges growing out of the 1922 oil scandals, Oilman Sinclair spent the night in Washington, motored next day to seclusion on his Rancocas stock farm at Jobstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Sinclair Steps Out | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...owners. Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate. Racing interests recently acquired. Bought the Rancocas stud founded by the late Pierre Lorillard at Jobstown, N. J. His former champions: Purchase, Grey Lag, Cirrus, Mad Hatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Belmont | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

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