Word: longchamps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August that sleepy little spa in upstate New York wakes up to become to U. S. racehorse people what Ascot is to the English, Longchamp to the French, Melbourne to the Australians. Saratoga can be as hot as the Sahara in August. Its hotels are great grotesque relics of the Mauve Decade with creaking elevators and hard beds. Its natives are openly out to make hay while the sun shines...
...grandson of Chicago's Marshall Field. Owner Beatty, who received $46,140 first-place money, was as surprised as the rest of the world. Bois Roussel, whom he had bought for $40,000 two months ago, had won only one previous race, the Prix Juigné at Longchamp last spring...
Under a sizzling sun organdied mannequins in the pesage of Longchamp's swank racetrack and Paris workmen in the field blinked the sweat out of their eyes for the start of the Prix de la Porte Maillot, day before the Grand-Prix last week. Most of them had bet on the U. S. favorite. Joseph E. Widener's El-Kantara, French Jockey Semblat up. When the barrier went up to send the horses off clockwise around the track, El-Kantara twitched back to his counterclockwise U. S. training, whirled and started off in the opposite direction...
...Pierre, opened a Dufy water color show in Manhattan. Most of the pictures were recent, all were typical. Like Matisse, Dufy uses startling paint, but his staccato drawing and deliberately off-register coloring are individual. His favorite scenes are fashionable: the Bois de Boulogne at Paris, the racetracks at Longchamp and Epsom, casinos at Deauville, boats at Cowes. Critics rate his talent witty and observant, have never granted him the accolades bestowed on his master...
June 29-Grand Prix de Paris races; at Longchamp, France...