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...Jerome H. Louchheim's colt Pompoon, favorite for next month's Kentucky Derby, smartly ridden by Jockey Harry Richards: the Paumonok Handicap, feature race of the first day of the New York racing season; by a neck, from Marshall Field's Tintagel; at Jamaica...
...four-year-old filly Columbiana, with Apprentice Jockey Hubert Le Blanc up, for her young Owner William J. ("Buddy") Hirsch, son of famed Trainer Max Hirsch: $52,000 and the gold Widener Challenge Cup, in the richest event of Florida's most profitable racing season; on the last day of the meeting at Hialeah Park, near Miami. Said rich Track Owner Joseph Widener while presenting his Cup to Buddy Hirsch: ". . . I think that Columbiana is young Mr. Hirsch's only horse. ... It proves once again that all men are equal on and under the turf...
...When she finds Kerry he is once more taking a bath, this time in an Irish stream. But now Marie does not mind. As a bonus with the first color picture produced in England, Producer Robert T. Kane has tossed in some songs by John McCormack, given famed Derby Jockey Steve Donoghue, six times winner of the Epsom Derby (1915-17-21-22-23-25), the leg-up on. Wings...
...Libel-of-the-year, the unfortunate color photograph of Gentleman Jockey Crawford Burton advertising Camel cigarets (TIME, Jan. 18) was completely settled last month when, after winning a $2,500 verdict against Crowell Publishing Co., Mr. Burton accepted $22,500 to square accounts with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., its advertising agency and all publications against which suits have been brought. Still pending, however, was Jockey Burton's $50,000 action against Funnyman Eddie Davis of a Manhattan night club for using a reproduction of the picture in a ribald Christmas card...
...advertising sensation of 1934 was the color photograph of Gentleman Jockey Crawford Burton, twice winner of the dangerous Maryland Hunt Cup, posing in his racing silks as an endorser of Camel cigarets' recuperative powers. By a horrible mischance, the photograph of Mr. Burton, holding his saddle and girth, reproduced in such a manner that to a prurient or imaginative eye it appeared to show Mr. Burton indecently exposed as only a man could be exposed...