Word: maillot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...