Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belmont Park last week, New York race-goers saw two records broken.. In the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Louis Tufano's three-year-old Market Wise, who raced last fall as a cheap selling plater, outran mighty Whirlaway, skimmed two miles in 3 min., 20 4/5 sec. to break by a full second the North American record set by the great Exterminator in 1920. Four days earlier, in a match between two of the outstanding two-year-olds of the year, Mrs. Albert Sabath's Alsab, in beating Ben Whitaker's Requested, ran 6½ furlongs...
...been secretly married for nearly a month to a 22-year-old flight lieutenant in the R.A.F., Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. ∙ ∙ Philadelphia society's former Princess Ruth Pignatelli, fighting for a divorce from her second husband, Broker James C. Brazelle, denied she bought a gentleman jockey friend a $250 set of store teeth. Husband Brazelle asked "reasonable support and maintenance." ∙ ∙ Princess Olga Troubetzskoi of the Philadelphia Social Register pleaded guilty to vagrancy when put on trial, charged with running a high-toned bawdy house in Manhattan...
...Wright colt not only finished eight lengths in front, but ran the mile and a quarter in 2 min., 2/5 sec. (the last quarter in 24 seconds flat). It was 1/5 of a second faster than the Kentucky Derby record set by Twenty Grand just ten years ago. Said Jockey Arcaro, grinning from ear to ear: "He's the runnin'est horse I ever rode...
...Sixties near the Hudson). As a boy he got a reputation for licking toughs, including members of a Harlem gang called "the syndicate," and studied the violin under Negro Composer J. Rosamond Johnson. While still in grammar school, Canada ran away from home, became a stable boy and jockey in Canada, moved back to Harlem after a couple of years. He won 90 out of 100 amateur fights and the national amateur lightweight title, turned pro in 1926, was heading for the welterweight title in 1930 when he got socked so hard in the left eye that today...
...infield where Black Gold (1924 Kentucky Derby winner) is buried, they took title to the track. The price was $177,000 down and a $348,000 mortgage - to be paid off by selling stock to New Orleanians. Said Syndicate Head Sylvester Welch Labrot Jr., president of the new Louisiana Jockey Club: "[From now on the] Fair Grounds will operate as a civic enterprise. It is to be New Orleans' track. . . . We shall have honest racing...