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Even Ch. Kippax ("Jock") Fearnought, 65 Ibs. of snuffling, bowlegged bulldog, got the kind of going-over that lavender-scented old ladies save for their lap dogs. A splendid anachronism from the days when Britons still baited bulls, 28-month-old Jock waddled into the ring without so much as a brier scratch or the toothmark of an honest alley fight on his tough red-and-white hide. Bored, and too lazy to walk a step more than necessary, he took the blue ribbon among nonsporting breeds...
Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney Person, 48, socialite horsewoman; and Richard Lunn, 40, public-relations man; she for the third time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay ["Jock"] Whitney), he for the second; in Washington...
...just wait," their 250 pound President Jock Langguth snarled after the Prince had run right over him for its fifth touchdown. "We'll get you later." The Prince feels in is its duty to warn you to look out for a parady...
...beating Native Dancer, there are those who half hope that they will not succeed, so great is their reverence for the horse. On the day of his most recent race, the Big Grey walked majestically into the paddock at the head of a parade of nine entries. Wealthy Horseman Jock Whitney, owner of the No. 2 choice in the betting, gazed admiringly not at his own Straight Face but at the Dancer. "f any one beats him. I hope it's my horse," mused Whitney. "It's strange, but I hope the Dancer wins...
Exercise boys hunched over the withers or, if they trusted the animals beneath them, stood high in the stirrups. A Cuban jockey sped by, crooning to his horse in Spanish. A steeplechase jock eased past on a chestnut jumper. A skittish, short-backed filly began to act up, slogging at the bit and trying to turn back up the track. Her jockey cursed: "You crummy pig. You're going back to the bull rings...