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...sufferers of last summer's Blitzkrieg were Mon Talisman and Clairvoyant, famous French thoroughbred race horses. From the time of the Nazi invasion their whereabouts was a mystery. Mon Talisman, a magnificent black stallion, had won six firsts and two seconds in eight starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) and Prix du President de la République (richest French handicap). Clairvoyant, his chestnut son, won five firsts in six starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club and the Grand Prix de Paris; altogether won 1,914,650 francs ($76,586) in his one year...
...Carnegie contemporary section was well hung by slight, white-pated ex-Jockey Jack Nash, who always hangs the International show, invariably guesses the first-prize winner before the jury picks it. He knows how artist jurors' minds work. This year there are no Carnegie prizes, but the Institute set aside $5,000 to buy pictures from the show. Last week Jack Nash was stumped, made no predictions. The purchases will be made by the Fine Arts Committee, composed of laymen, and laymen's choices are beyond Jack Nash...
...Berry Wall owned his first race horse. He became a charter member of two jockey clubs, an amateur walking champion, a dead shot, a member of Manhattan's blue-blooded Old Seventh Regiment. Other members were various Schermerhorns, Belmonts, Harrimans, Rhinelanders, and Elliot Roosevelt, father of Eleanor. Says Wall: "I often wonder what he would think of his daughter and son-in-law now. Perhaps it is just as well not to wonder...
With stunts such as a patrons' handicapping contest-a $5,000 prize awarded each Saturday to the fan picking the most winners-Lindheimer doubled attendance in five years, made a profit of $120,000 for his Washington Park Jockey Club last year...
...attract customers to their 30-day meet, they will do away with scoring, the timehonored, time-wasting method of starting,* and substitute the recently invented McNamara starting gate in which drivers, separated by dangling ropes, are given 15 seconds to jockey for position and cross the line. The promoters will also do away with the equally hallowed custom of heat racing (two out of three heats to decide the winner instead of one race). They will lay out a half-mile track, popular with railbirds because the horses pass the grandstand twice, and install an electric tote board and apparatus...