Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason. It cannot be denied that men, trained to think and observe while in the universities, will later turn out to be the thinking voters of the country. Habits of reason and logic formed in college are not lost in later life, but rather tend to influence the owner to careful and restrained opinion in place of blind and spiteful off-hand judgment...
...habits different from those of every other horse. He makes a point of discovering and supplying these. One of the most sensational Jacobs horses this summer has been Amagansett, a 6-year-old jumper which Mr. Jacobs got last spring for the nominal price of $1,000 because his owner, Thomas Hitchcock Sr., considered him surly and ill-tempered. Amagansett, who stopped sulking as soon as Trainer Jacobs bought him, has since won eleven races, $11,000 in purses...
...riders as well as race horses. His entries are rarely overmatched. He has no contract jockey, chooses riders who are "hot," i e., enjoying winning streaks. Jacobs' horses are usually entered in the name of his wife. Mrs. Ethel Jacobs consequently last week became the leading U. S. owner in number of races...
...Jacobs stables contain 60 horses. Forty are in active competition. The rest are learning the business at the Jacobs farm in Maryland. The majority of both groups are "platers" (cheap horses entered in races of which any entrant can be claimed by anyone for a price stated by its owner beforehand). Under Jacobs' management platers sometimes improve so rapidly as to be unrecognizable. Wonder horse of the season is a 7-year-old named Action. When Trainer Jacobs bought him for the customary $1,000 six months ago, Action was not only the cheapest kind of plater but, apparently...
...parking; he answers his summons but holds on to the ticket. Then away to the New Lecture Hall, leave the chariot on the street with the tag, date renewed in the winshield, and think no more about it. If an authority sees the car, he observes also that its owner has already been penalized and gives the matter no further thought...