Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Payne Whitney, famed sportsman: "I filed papers with the New York Jockey Club claiming the name 'Teapot' for a two-year-old bay filly which will race on eastern tracks this season...
Died. Kate Terry (Mrs. Arthur Lewis), 79, oldest living member of the famous Terry family of actors and actresses, in London. She made her first stage appearance in 1847 at the age of three, singing I'm Ninety- Five and dancing the Jockey Dance. Her last appearance was in 1906, at Drury Lane in a jubilee testimonial to Ellen; she was Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing...
Newspaper photographs showed the heads of the two horses on practically a deadline, with In Memoriam having a fraction the better of it. The crowd and In Memoriam's jockey believed he had won the race until Zev's name was posted...
...Memoriam, considered an outsider, wore down Harry F. Sinclair's international champion Zev, passed him at the head of the stretch, to win by six lengths. Jockey Earl Sande is said to have flagrantly disobeyed orders in forcing Zev to the front in the opening rush and trying to hold him there through the 1¾-mile race-the longest Zev had ever run. Zev settled the My Own controversy by leading Admiral Grayson's three-year-old four lengths across the line. Thirty thousand natives of the Blue Grass went wild at the victory of In Memoriam...
Trophy. The gold cup won by Zev was presented by the American Jockey Club as a perpetual challenge cup for international three-year-old racing...