Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watched, from the Royal stand built several years ago for the Prince of Wales, by a wide-eyed group of Swedish excursionists. The grandstand and enclosure were nearly filled toward noon, when an agitated hare came humping down the home stretch, crossed the finish line and dodged into the paddock...
...paddock, the horses stood easy and quiet. Cyril R. Taylor's Grakle, a brown gelding nine years old who had run in the Grand National four times and only finished once, nibbled wisps of hay in comparative obscurity; he was a 100-to-6 shot. Gregalach, the chestnut gelding who won in 1929, pawed the ground without enthusiasm while his fanciers flocked around. Thickest of all was the crowd looking at John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Easter Hero, favorite at odds...
Engaged. Charles W. Paddock, 30, once famed footracer,* now a law student at the University of Southern California; and Mrs. Neva Prisk Malaby, daughter of Publisher Charles Henry Prisk of the Pasadena Star-News; in Pasadena, Calif...
...Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter: a 100-metre dash event in Toronto, breaking by 1/10 sec. the world's record of 10 4/10 sec. set by Charles Paddock...
Died. Mrs. Rose Sturgess, 70, famed English ratcatcher, descendant of generations of ratcatchers; of natural causes; at Paddock Wood, England...