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...Except for the failure of the favorite-which is almost an Aintree tradition -last week's race was run truer to form than any Grand National anyone could remember. The Hon. Dorothy Wyndham Paget, owner of Golden Miller, last year spent $200,000 for brood mares at the Newmarket sale. Two years before she had bought Golden Miller, who had brought only $500 as a yearling and had been resold four times since, for about $30,000. That her racing colors contain the same shade of blue as that of the foremost U. S. racing family, the Whitneys...
That was the peak of Jockey Sloan's parabolic career. He had gone to England in 1898, dumfounded the crowds at Newmarket by gluing his small frame monkey-like to his mount's neck instead of perching high in the saddle. In the next two years he booted in 63 winners in 151 races, mostly for the late Lord Beresford. He saw English jockeys copy his "American style." He was exhibited to Mayfair drawing rooms, wore the silks of Edward of Wales, heard the future King shout from the royal box: "Well ridden, Sloan...
Despite the cluckings of his doctors, George V wrapped himself in a thick ulster and went down to cold, wet Newmarket Heath last week for the Cambridgeshire. His Limelight was a starter, and the dope sheets and his trainers assured His Majesty that Limelight was the best horse he has owned since Scuttle won the 1,000 Guineas in 1928. Sweepstake investors had put up a total of $8,500,000 on the race. Limelight went to the post, through a sea of glistening mackintoshes, a 5-to-1 favorite. Up to the quarter-mile Limelight held the lead, seemed...
...trophy is supposed to have been carefully plaited from the tail of that greatest of stallions, the unbeaten Eclipse. Lord Harewood was given seven days either to forfeit The Whip or agree to race his father-in-law's five-year-old Fox Earth for it at the Newmarket Spring Meeting next April...
...Newmarket, England last week Mr. Widener's Seminole won the Cesarewitch, important long-distance stake, at odds...