Word: kellsboro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. For the hardest steeplechase in the world, the turf on Aintree's 4½ mile brush-and-water course last week was firm and springy from a rain the day before. Golden Miller's time (9:20 2/5) was a record, nearly 8 sec. better than Kellsboro Jack's last year. Except for the failure of the favorite-which is almost an Aintree tradition -last week's race was run truer to form than any Grand National anyone could remember. The Hon. Dorothy Wyndham Paget, owner of Golden Miller, last year spent...
...Becher's Brook the second time, Kellsboro Jack, Remus. Delaneige and Slater, the horse Jock Whitney sold a fortnight before the race, were setting the pace. Gregalach missed the jump, fell and broke a blood-vessel. Miss Paget's Golden Miller, the prime favorite, lost his rider. At Valentine's Brook, Kellsboro Jack, getting a beautiful ride from little David Dudley Williams whom many experts consider England's best steeplechase jockey, took the lead. In the last mile huge Pelorus Jack, who caused several bad spills when he swung across the track in last year...
...Clark had more than one reason to be pleased with her horse last week. Kellsboro Jack not only made her one of the three U. S. owners whose horses have won at Aintree:† he won in record time-9 min. 38 sec. and beat ahorse entered by Mrs. Clark's dearest rival-her ruddy, jolly, loud-voiced husband. His entrant at Aintree-even less highly regarded than Kellsboro Jack, who had trained badly in the spring and was backed by only a few people who had faith in the firm predictions of Mrs. Clark and her trainer-Ivor...
...State in 1911, Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Payne Whitney did more than anyone else to keep it going. Mrs. Clark winters her horses, not at Cooperstown with her husband's, but at Glasgow, Del., does more about running the stable than her trainer. James Healy. When she acquired Kellsboro Jack -whose four-year-old brother Steeplejack II is owned by her husband-she was gratified because she had particular regard for his bloodlines (Jackdaw, sire. Kellsboro Lass, dam). Mrs. Clark is aunt to the Bostwick brothers, Pete and Albert. Their able riding is partly due to training they received...
...fence. He threw his reins to the man nearest him. dismounted, extricated the cow, discovered that the Prince was holding his horse. If Ambrose Clark was disgruntled at the performance of Chadd's Ford last week, he had himself to thank. He bought Kellsboro Jack in Ireland several years ago, gave him to Mrs. Clark last year because he was "unlucky...