Word: newmarket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that might be expected to slap a fine on Queen Elizabeth II did just that. The autocratic Jockey Club notified defaulting Member Elizabeth that she would have to pay up $140 for failing to notify the club at least three days before the running of the Champion Stakes at Newmarket that her colt, Above Suspicion, would not be in the race...
...Queen's consuming passion, outside the Crown and her family, is horses. On a recent visit to the university city of Cambridge, she said: "I am so glad to be here. I have passed through so often on my journey to the Newmarket races." The Queen also referees bicycle polo, a game that Prince Philip devised and, popularized for their children. "Do hit it, Anne!" the Queen cries. Elizabeth likes to sit with Philip in the evenings and watch television-at Buckingham Palace, TV is specially piped in to eliminate the static caused by London's rush-hour...
Acting on Turner's instructions two years ago, Agent Bert Kerr bought a highly regarded yearling named Tuleg for $25,000 at Britain's Newmarket sales. Chiefly to provide a traveling companion for Tuleg, Kerr threw in another $6,720 for Tomy Lee, a blaze-faced bay colt whose ancestry indicated he lacked the stamina to win at distances over a mile...
...near Dover, England. First female recipient of the Grand Cross of the British Empire (conferred on her in 1922 for war work), Lady Curzon was a significant arc in titled circles, an owner of race horses whose brown and pink colors were once familiar at Ascot and Newmarket, and a friend of Lady Randolph Churchill (nee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn), mother of Sir Winston...
...grooms, owners and thoroughbred racers that not even hard-riding country squires found it possible to fault. One of Stubbs's best, Gimcrack with a Groom, shows Lord Bolingbroke's small, dark grey champion (27 firsts in 35 starts) being groomed (at left) and winning over the Newmarket course on July 12, 1765 (at right...