Word: reynoldstown
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...that the same horse never wins two years in a row. Fortunately, the horses who run the race are unacquainted with the legends upon which their admirers base predictions of its outcome. Winner of the Grand National of 1935 was Major Noel Furlong's Irish gelding Reynoldstown, ridden by his son Frank, who was delighted because first prize ($32,000) enabled him to marry. Last week Frank Furlong, married to Pamela Kingsmill and fatter than a year ago, was too heavy to ride his father's horse but Reynoldstown was in the race again, patently unaware...
That left only one thing for Reynoldstown to do: gallop comfortably past the screaming grandstand, 12 lengths in front of Ego. He did so and became the first horse to win the Grand National at Aintree two years in a row since The Colonel...
...Miss Martha Wellington, secretary to the advertising manager of The New Yorker, Mrs. Fannie Lebowitz of Albany, N. Y., a 71-year-old Salem, Mass, bachelor named Amos Strout, a firm of two Lynn, Mass, telephone operators, and a Hollywood billing clerk each won $150,000 with tickets on Reynoldstown. Mrs. Lebowitz said she planned to "make everybody happy." The rest said nothing and Secretary Wellington even ducked photographers...
Major Noel Furlong's Reynoldstown, a big black steeplechaser, bred by his modestly well-to-do owner in Ireland, was ridden by Major Furlong's son, a onetime officer in the Ninth Lancers, who finished second in the Grand National of 1933. In need of the ,?6.570 first prize for his forthcoming wedding, Gentleman Jockey Frank Furlong galloped strongly through the last heart-breaking uphill 300 yards. At the finish, Reynoldstown was first by three lengths. Said Frank Furlong: "I don't know...
...Washington, reporters gaped at the Right Honorable Alfred Byrne, against whose predictions any bookmaker would gladly have bet at odds of 1,000-to-1. Said he, less modest than Frank Furlong: "Anyone with half an eye could see that Reynoldstown would...