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...Hirsch, 53-year- old horse trainer who, like Owner Widener, had in the past 20 years won almost every other U. S. horse race except the Derby. Second was his sad-eyed, 23-year-old daughter Mary, first woman ever to receive a trainer's license from The Jockey Club (TIME, April 15, 1935). "Miss Mary" was absent from Louisville last week because her own charges were running at Jamaica, L. I. But to ride her-father's Derby entry, Bold Venture, she sent her contract apprentice jockey whom she herself had trained, tiny 18-year...
...post Jockey Hanford took a quick look at Brevity pawing the ground nervously while his blinkers were being adjusted. At the break the 14 horses jammed, one jockey was unseated. The crowd gasped as the favorite was nearly knocked to his knees. Another horse caromed into Bold Venture. Trailing the field, Hanford steadied him, worked up to eighth place at the quarter-mile, maneuvered Bold Venture into the lead at the half-mile. At the mile Brevity drew up alongside. The horses' necks bobbed and stretched in uni son down the stretch. But Hanford man aged to keep Bold...
...Garden Murder Case" Philo Vance (Edmund Lowe) sets about solving the death of a gentleman jockey, but he finds himself with two other murders and what he considers a lovely girl (Virginia Bruce) on his hands before he is through. Yet in spite of a plot that confused our untrained mind, and a few stray remarks like "Elementary, m'dear Watson," which belong to Doyle, not Van Dine, the picture is a satisfactory piece, and rounds out an entertaining program...
Golden Miller, winner in 1934, fell at the first fence. His jockey remounted but the Miller refused at Valentine's Brook and was withdrawn. Avenger, overnight favorite because the track was soft, fell at the first jump the second time round, broke his neck, had to be shot. At odds of 100-to-1, Lord Mildmay's stallion Davy Jones took the lead from the start and held it the second time around, over Becher's Brook, around the Canal Turn and past Valentine's Brook. There were two jumps left before the finish...
Estelle Hughes, another "cabaret hostess," left the Red Dot Café with a sailor and a jockey, wound up at dawn on the lawn of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway station. There was a bullet through her brain and her skirt had been pulled up over her head. Police arrested the jockey. At the dead woman's rooming house, her 9-year-old daughter was dressed in an Indian suit, wailing for her mother to take her out to see the parades...