Word: pelorus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...your March 28 issue, on p. 29. you refer to a horse named Pelorus Jack. There is an interesting story behind this name, the details of which most any Australian can give you. The writer's memory of the story, related to him by an Australian pilot, is too uncertain to be quoted. Briefly, the story concerns a certain dolphin or jackfish, the existence of which is sworn to by many ship captains, which, meeting and swimming a few feet ahead of the ships served as a guide through the treacherous Pelorus straights on the inner route along...