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Giving himself up at Louisville last week, where last May he had ridden Omaha to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Willie ("Smoky") Saunders was indicted by a grand jury for being accessory to murder. Chief witness...
...team campaigning on Long Island has been the major polo interest of the season, the doings of young Pete Bostwick on and off the field have run a close second. Last year, Bostwick, whose diminutive size had aided him to become generally rated the world's ablest amateur jockey, decided to give up racing in favor of a game which his other interests had kept him too busy to play seriously since he was 10. Promptly and characteristically, he concluded that if polo was good enough for him to play, it was good enough for more people to watch...
...less impressive than the change in the fortunes of Discovery this year has been that of the 22-year-old owner who bought him for $25,000 in 1932, just after the Vanderbilt silks (cerise, white diamonds and white cap; had been registered with The Jockey Club. Properly speaking, the Vanderbilt Stables came into existence in 1934. The autumn before. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt celebrated his coming of age with a party at Cedar Knoll. Sands Point, L. I. From the estate of his father, who went down with the Lusitania, he got the first installment (about...
Since Jan. 3 the 74th Congress has run a long lazy race for Jockey Franklin Roosevelt. Partly the fault was his, for not letting Congress know exactly what he wanted, for sending up sloppily drafted measures such as the Social Security Bill which had to be entirely rewritten in the House, for not making up his mind until June that he wanted the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill passed as part of his program. Last week Congress was growing tired, yearning for the finish line, when the President, at last knowing his own mind, began to ride...
...home stretch a jockey has nothing to lose by whipping a tired horse. But the horse in this case was rather flabbergasted at how much ground its jockey expected it to cover in how little time. As the House delegation emerged with their instructions, newshawks crowded around to ask what was now on the President's "must" list. Said a member of the delegation: "You sit down and write out a list and I'll tell you if there's anything you have left...