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...unlike Hancock, keeps some of his stock for racing under his own silks. A small string, however, that always commands attention are the dozen or so offered each year by the Belair Stud of Collington, Md. For Belair's owner, 63-year-old Millionaire William Woodward, Chairman of The Jockey Club, whose 50 members regulate the sport from start to finish, is not only one of the most successful stable owners of the past decade. He is the decade's most successful breeder...
...millions of U. S. citizens who follow racing, racing's ancient purpose?Improvement of the Breed?is largely a gag. It is no gag to The Jockey Club's Chairman. It is a business as serious as building up the world's eleventh biggest bank, to which he has devoted two decades. The banking business has not been too good for anybody in the past few years. But for William Woodward the business of breeding and running horses has been fine...
...cozy little seaport of Napier, New Zealand and followed the crowds to its racetrack for the annual Napier Steeplechase, one of the island's most outstanding horse races. A few jumps from the finish line, only one horse had a rider. All the others had lost their jockeys somewhere along the stiff, three-mile course. Like a crazy dream, first one spectator, then another, scampered onto the course, mounted riderless horses, took them over the remaining jumps and finished on the heels of the horse & rider that had stuck together. When the results were posted, the horses with railbirds...
...field, had cost them more than $5,000,000. But there never was a more popular victory. Leading his colt to the winner's circle, Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, grinned from ear to ear, told reporters that the silks his jockey wore in the race had belonged to his father, had been discovered in an old trunk during house-cleaning a few weeks before...
...accepted the gold trophy (and $46.000) was his trainer, 65-year-old Jim Fitzsimmons, who had saddled both Mr. Wood ward's previous Derby winners. To "Mr. Fitz," as he is known to all racing folk, went 10% of the prize money. Another 10% went to Jockey Jimmy Stout, who had won his first Kentucky Derby al though he had ridden a favorite twice be fore. An hour later, while Louisville toasted Johnstown as another War Admiral, another Exterminator, another Man o' War, the big bay received his reward: three quarts of oats, a quart of carrots...