Word: macmoffat
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...there was nothing to remind 100,000 Englishmen, gathered at Aintree last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...
...hair-raising Becher's Brook, Royal Danieli took the lead, kept it round the right-angle Canal Turn, over Valentine's Brook, down the backstretch, past the stands the first time around. At Becher's Brook, on the second circuit, he was still in front, with MacMoffat and James Neill's 50-to-1 shot Gold Arrow close behind. It looked as if the old Aintree jinx on favorites was not working...
...next to the last of the 30 jumps -after leading for nearly four miles-Royal Danieli toppled, lay motionless on the emerald-green turf while Co-Favorite MacMoffat and lightly fancied Bogskar led the field past him. Neck & neck MacMoffat and Bogskar took the last fence...
Down the homestretch they galloped, long-striding Bogskar opening more & more daylight with each stride, crossing the finish line four lengths ahead of MacMoffat, ten lengths ahead of Gold Arrow...
...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...