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...lowest in Grand National history. Turf experts estimated that British bookmakers would lose $9,600,000 if Golden Miller won. The knot of people at the first fence after Valentine's Brook, one of the easiest on the course, last week saw Golden Miller's jockey, Gerry Wilson, fall off. To the crowd this event was a calamity. Next day it became a national scandal when the London Daily Express published, pointedly without comment, a series of pictures of Golden Miller taking the jump perfectly and contradicting Jockey Wilson's explanation that his horse had tried...
Steeplechase. Jockey Wilson fell again, at the first fence...
...Liverpool, over 30 jumps, huge hedges & ditches wide as little rivers. Only the 300 yards in front of the grandstand are clearly visible to most spectators. Things most of the crowd missed seeing last week were Castle Irwell's blunder at the Canal Turn; Royal Ransom's jockey being unseated at Valentine's Brook; 21 other mishaps that cut the field, smaller than usual, to six horses at the finish...
...license of Crawford Burton, Manhattan stockbroker, steeplechaser, and one of the few men in the world to ride two winners in the Maryland Hunt Cup. Reason: He allowed his photograph in racing silks to appear in a spectacular testimonial advertisement for Camel cigarets. Victim of many a serious fall. Jockey Burton has not ridden a steeplechase since...
...Cudahy marked out a quarter-mile track on the Onwentsia Club polo field, had the family chauffeur hold a clock while he rode his horse around it. Later he sent the horse to the racing stable of one of his father's friends, had the trainer let a jockey exercise him. Because in his nine previous starts he had never done better than fifth, none of the Cudahys except young Bob bothered to back Granite Son in his second race as a 3-year-old last week at Lincoln Fields. Young Cudahy's winnings came from...