Word: ky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to popular impression, the Kentucky Derby, in which a score of able U. S. three-year-old horses will this week race1¼ miles at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., is not the oldest, the richest or the best U. S. horse race. It is the most famed U. S. horse race and indubitably- in crowds, excitement, importance to the U. S. scene-the biggest. Last week the amiable, horsey city of Louisville was busy removing traces of the $52,000,000 damage left by last winter's flood in preparation for the one day in the year...
...until last week were Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward. Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Brooklyn, Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral. Jerome H. Louchheirn's Pompoon (clockwise from upper left on TIME'S front cover). Last week the group suddenly dispersed. At Lexington, Ky. in the Blue Grass Stakes, when Brooklyn finished third, behind his stablemate Billionaire and Fencing (trained by Earl Sande), his owner withdrew him from the Derby.' At Jamaica, L. I., Pompoon finished a miserable fifth in the Wood Memorial, causing his odds to jump to 10-to-1. Meanwhile...
...that," replied the company-hired police chief of Lynch, a company-owned coal town in Harlan County, Ky. "It would mean a Senate investigation and we can't stand that...
...went in 1922 taking Richard Pocock with him. He was succeeded at Washington by Russell ("Rusty") Callow, who brought the West Coast its first Poughkeepsie Regatta winner in 1923, went to the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. Currently, Washington crews are coached by Al Ulbrickson, whose major rival is Ky Ebright, Washington coxswain in 1916-17, now head coach at California. Between them, Washington and California have won the Poughkeepsie Regatta, in which Yale, Harvard and Princeton are the only major crews that do not compete, eight times in the last 13 races. California crews won the Olympic championship...
Still smiling as he swing into the last lap, "Butch" was a full half-length behind John Scruggs of Maysville, Ky. But he came in gamely in a bit under 15 minutes, panting: "I guess you boys...