Word: okapi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association opened at flowery Belmont Park four days later.* Flecked by tragedy, Mrs. Sloane's colors continued their phenomenal gallop from prize to prize. In the 41st running of the Toboggan Handicap, Belmont's opener, Mrs. Sloane's favorite horse, Okapi, was entered. Mack Garner was up -"Colonel" Mack Garner since he had won the Kentucky Derby on Cavalcade two weeks before. Riding high on Brookmeade's luck, Garner, a comparative dodderer among jockeys, at 34 was having the best season of his 20 years in racing. Nothing could stop...
...soon as she could, Mrs. Sloane dashed to the paddock where steaming Okapi was being cooled out by Garner and her trainer Robert A. ("Whistling Bob") Smith, also a Kentucky colonel since the Derby. "You made a work horse out of him last year," accused Mrs. Sloane, stroking little Okapi, her "pet." "You made a pacemaker...
Fleet and shy is the okapi, member of the giraffe family and denizen only of Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. Okapi have been captured, but never photographed in their native environment, which is one of the most dense jungles known to man. Distinctive feature of the okapi is its striped hindquarters.* Therefore when Explorer Cornelius P. Bezuidenhout brought back from the Ituri section closeup pictures of the jungle okapi, Illustrated London News not only featured his photographs and ran a long story by him, but used a closeup rear-view of a female okapi as its full-page frontispiece...
Explorer Bezuidenhout explained he had accomplished his feat by disguising himself as a wild pig, going about grunting. Once a male okapi- who failed to be photographed- kicked the pig. Once an elephant charged the pig, made Mr. Bezuidenhout evacuate the pigskin, which it tusked and trampled...