Word: kilstar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional gamblers professed to like Dorothy Paget's Kilstar, an 8-year-old brown gelding which Miss Paget bought last year for $1,500 from a cavalry officer who could no longer afford to keep him. Kilstar stood firm at 8-1, but England's shillings rained down on H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli, which last year lost by a mere neck to Battleship. By race time the odds on Royal Danieli had been backed down from 20-1 to 10-1. A decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire...
...Kilstar was jumping like a horse in a hunting print. Over the treacherous right-angle Canal Turn and past Valentine's spruce-bunkered brook it was Kilstar and Under Bid. Together they cleared the 15-foot water jump in front of the stands, and roared into the second trip around the course. But back of the leaders, out of the crush, Workman was running easily under the crafty hand of Irish Tim Hyde, a veteran of many years of chasing, a gentleman jockey turned pro. He was following the plan the illustrious George Stevens used to bring...
...Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then on it was nip and tuck between the green and the primrose. Over the last fence soared Workman, half a stride ahead of MacMoffat, and galloped into the stretch...
...Paddy's got it," the Irish and the Merseysiders exulted, and they were right. The Paddy horse breezed in three lengths ahead of MacMoffat without the whip, with Kilstar a trailing third among the eleven finishers. It was the first all-Irish winner since Troytown's year, 1920. Tim Hyde grinned a wide, toothless grin. Said he to Workman: "Twas a marvelous race...
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