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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opulent estancieros whose ranches cover most of Argentina the smartest rendezvous on earth is El Jockey Club in sophisticated Buenos Aires. One night last week the sumptuously baroque club was con fiesta for some jovial Britons. Champagne popped and sizzled. Frankly the Britons admitted they were out for Argentine trade. Hospitably they were toasted and cheered. "Welcome! Welcome to Argentina!" cried Dr. Joaquin Sanchez de Anchorena, oldtime toastmaster of El Club. "I cannot praise too highly British achievement in stock-raising and horse-breeding. Rest assured we are ready to give preferential attention to the aims of your economic mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trade Embassy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Hottentot is a terrifying racing steed. He belongs to a horsey Eastern family, needs a rider in the coming steeplechase. From California comes Edward Everett Horton to visit. He loves the daughter of the house, Patsy Ruth Miller, who can love only horsey men. Timid, sedentary, Horton is no jockey, but a mutual friend tells Patsy Ruth that Horton is a famed steeplechaser. Her love for him is, of course, immediate. Horton then sustains five reels of comic discomfiture. Valiant though protesting, he attempts to ride the Hottentot, connives darkly with the butler to get rid of the beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Unusually eventful, a little saddened, was last week's opening by the death of James Rowe. Not to most jockies, trainers, nor even to many a famed sport king himself had come the fame that came to Harry Payne Whitney's 72-year-old trainer. A jockey at 16, he early won fame and money. When he knew all there was to know about horses, he became a trainer, trained for such men as the late great August Belmont, James R. Keene. finally for Mr. Whitney. "This is my last ride," said Trainer Rowe last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Saratoga | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Gann's brother, Vice President Charles Curtis, continued last week to "rest up" between sessions of Congress. Once a jockey, he will go down in history as the Vice President (or as the President, if anything should happen to President Hoover) who liked to go to horse races, just as Grover Cleveland liked duckshooting, Calvin Coolidge fishing, Herbert Hoover building toy dams. In the minds of many a temperate Christian woman, horse-racing is almost as iniquitous as liquor but so far no prying soul has disturbed the Vice President's innocent pleasure. During the Spring he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Number Twos | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

When Trigo crossed the finish line there was a profound silence. Nobody could believe that the outsider had "done the trick." Trigo's jockey was only an apprentice, one Joe Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epsom Derby | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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