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...world by buying some new horses and lining up a new bride.* The pumpkin-shaped sportsman, now living in wartime exile in Switzerland, celebrated his colt Tehran's winning of the $22,000 St. Leger (rhymes with Dillinger) Stakes by buying several horses at England's famed Newmarket sales. The 67-year-old potentate also posted the banns for his fourth marriage (Begum No. 3 divorced him last year). His new intended is tall, black-haired, 38-year-old Yvette La Brousse, a "Miss France...
...Lord Rosebery's Ocean Swell, a three-year-old, 28-to-1 shot; the 165th running of the English Derby, held in spite of the invasion and enemy "robot bombers," over the grassy, up-&-down Suffolk Stakes course at Newmarket. The crowd of 10,000 was less than one-fortieth the size of the last peacetime meeting...
...England women have for some years been allowed to ride in the United Kingdom's oldest horse race, the Town Plate. run at Newmarket since the days of Charles II. This week, at Maryland's Pimlico race track, U.S. fans for the first time will see a woman riding in a professional race. She is apple-cheeked, 29-year-old Judy Johnson, of Bethesda, Md., who has convinced the Maryland Racing Commission that she is as good a steeplechase rider as any jockey in the business...
...King and Queen were there. Otherwise, the third wartime running of the Derby at Newmarket last week was just a shadow of England's beloved annual spree...
Dwindling gasoline rations, fear of police checkups and painful memories of what happened last year, when an army convoy clogged the Newmarket road for three hours, kept thousands upon thousands of Derby regulars at home. Those who planned to go by rail found all special trains canceled...