Word: mildmay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first fence. His jockey remounted but the Miller refused at Valentine's Brook and was withdrawn. Avenger, overnight favorite because the track was soft, fell at the first jump the second time round, broke his neck, had to be shot. At odds of 100-to-1, Lord Mildmay's stallion Davy Jones took the lead from the start and held it the second time around, over Becher's Brook, around the Canal Turn and past Valentine's Brook. There were two jumps left before the finish...
...hardest course in the world, is that anything can happen. Just before Davy Jones took the second fence from the finish last week, one of his reins broke near the bit. The part of the crowd of 250,000 that was standing near the finish saw the Hon. Anthony Mildmay steer his father's horse desperately over the jump, but on the flat again Davy Jones veered sharply, ran off the course...
...Field, British sporting weekly, organized a movement to seek the cause and cure of distemper, began soliciting funds in Britain, Canada and the U. S. Headed by the Duke of Portland, the Field Distemper Council was adorned by the Duke of Buccleugh, the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Mildmay of Flete and many another noble & sporting name. Dr. Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, pathologist, and Major George William Dunkin, veterinarian, were given charge of research. Now, after nearly a decade, the Council has felt justified in disbanding, placing the crown of unqualified success upon its work. Its final report is published...