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...comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl Sande, who won last year, said he liked Mate and leaned his back against the paddock rail, waiting for the moment when he would be called to say a few words over the N. B. C. hookup. Late in the afternoon, the crowd began to climb into the stands for the fifth race, the Derby...
...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...
...warning bell rang and the horses danced slowly through a lane in the crowd from the paddock to the track?Easter Hero first, then Glangesia, Ballasport, Kakuskin and 39 others...
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...