Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turf folk at the Laurel, Md. track one day last week crowded into the paddock of a big, handsome bay stallion, nearly 17 hands high, with a high-poised head and well-spaced eyes-Winooka, fastest sprinter of Australasia. Winooka was unheard-of outside Australia until last year when, a four-year-old, he won eight of 13 starts, failed only once to finish in the money. Of those races the greatest was the Doncaster Handicap in which he broke the late famed Phar Lap's Australasian record for the mile. Carrying 139 lb., Winooka...
...about his favorite subject, "The Lost Art of Ordering" (meals); Ring Lardner Jr. wrote solemnly about undergraduate guzzling at Princeton. There were stories by John Dos Passos, William McFee, Manuel Komroff, Morley Callaghan, Erskine Caldwell, Dashiell Hammett, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Vincent Starrett. Bobby Jones, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Charley Paddock wrote about sports. There were cartoons by Alajalov, John Groth, Steig and four others, funny pieces by George Ade, Montague Glass, Harry Hershfield, photographs by Gilbert Seehausen, Paul Trebilcock, poetry by Joseph Auslander. Finally there were 14 pages with colored illustrations about clothes for all kinds of men, from...
...fire; a zeppelin picked out by searchlights over England; a chaplain walking through an evacuated battleground, making rapid gestures over minced bodies. There are good sequences of Italian soldiers scampering wildly in retreat across a bridge under shell fire; prisoners lolling about and scratching themselves in a barbed wire paddock; the bombardment of Ypres; a German officer burning his tongue on a spoonful of soup in Brussels in the summer of 1914. Some of the performers in The Big Drive are Lord Kitchener. Elsie Janis. Baron Manfred von Richthofen. Clemenceau. the Crown Prince, Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Producer Albert...
...starts in 1919 and 1920. Of the 37 races Phar Lap won, only one-the Agua Caliente Handicap last March-was away from home. But last week on Futurity Day at Belmont Park, L. I., Easterners rubbed their eyes and stared at a big red figure standing in the paddock.* It was Phar Lap. He had not returned to life, but the glossy coat was Phar Lap's and the ridges beneath it looked precisely like the powerful muscles that had made him great. His owner, David J. Davis, had had the Phar Lap carcass reconstructed, was exhibiting...
Just as though the Free State's squabbles with Britain had never arisen and Eamon de Valera had never been born, 884 of the finest horses in the world delicately chomped their oats in Dublin last week and tripped round & round the paddock in parti-colored flannel blankets. It was the opening of the Dublin Horse Show, greatest event in the Irish social season and an annual magnet for scores of U. S. sportsmen on their way north for Scotland, Aug. 12 and grouse...