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...Dubai "will take anything we can give them," Braithwaite says. Four years ago, Ferretti's Russian market was practically nonexistent. Last year sales there hit $147 million. Rich Russians are following the lead of homegrown multibillionaire Roman Abramovich. He owns three yachts, including the 377-ft. (115 m) Pelorus, and reportedly has a fourth under construction in Germany--the aptly named Eclipse, which at 509 ft. (155 m) would be the world's biggest privately owned ship...
...blood-vessel. Miss Paget's Golden Miller, the prime favorite, lost his rider. At Valentine's Brook, Kellsboro Jack, getting a beautiful ride from little David Dudley Williams whom many experts consider England's best steeplechase jockey, took the lead. In the last mile huge Pelorus Jack, who caused several bad spills when he swung across the track in last year's Grand National, was coming up fast. Pelorus Jack fell at the last fence and then came one of the weirdest finishes in Grand National History. Kellsboro Jack, owned by Mrs. Frederick Ambrose Clark...
...Again, Pelorus Jack...
Sirs: Doubtless many other New Zealanders will hasten to establish our claim to the fish "Pelorus Jack" which was referred to as an Australian by a correspondent in TIME of April 18. But in case they do not: Pelorus Jack was a very real and popular personality who for many years frequented the cairn waters of Pelorus Sound, New Zealand, and made a practice of meeting the daily steamers as they passed through the narrow French Pass on the regular route between Wellington and Nelson. (I am a native of Nelson and saw him innumerable times and this...
...Pelorus Jack lived in Pelorus Sound, New Zealand. So great was his fame he is mentioned in Encyclopedia Britannica, which calls him "an individual . . . believed to have belonged to" the Grampus griseus species, Risso's dolphin...