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...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...
When the tumult and the shouting has died away, it is easy enough for the sophisticated cynics to make out that this gang or that one had the party's nominee all picked out in advance, that they were simply awaiting the strategic moment before opening the paddock gate and trotting out the winner. Harding, for example...
...Irish Sweepstakes offers less hazard and much greater reward. The dark horses on the CRIMSON's string are Senator Bulkley of Ohio, Governor William II, Murray of Oklahoma, Samuel Seabury of New York and former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Down in this shadowy side of the paddock are a crowd of other aspirants who are more than willing to run if given the opportunity. The list of those that have been mentioned as possibilities is a long one: it includes Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Senator Lewis of Illinois, Governor White o Ohio, Cordell Hull of Tennessee, David...
...black cap and the black striped sleeves and pink of Mrs. Payne Whitney's Greentree Stable, Jockey Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand was the first to come out of the tunnel under the stands from the paddock to the track. The horses danced past the clubhouse, where swart little Vice President Curtis sat in the stand built a year ago for the Earl of Derby. Then they turned and danced back, a noiseless, brilliant procession, to the starting line where the track straightens into the home stretch. They were there for only a moment, too far away to be seen...