Word: seabiscuit
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...possemen are the best drilled. Probably the most swashbuckling group of two-gun capitalists that ever pulled a bootstrap, its 35 members include George J. O'Brien, treasurer of Standard Oil Company of California; Roy Bronson, attorney for Aluminum Company of America; Charles S. Howard Jr., son of Seabiscuit's owner; Tom Bacon, for whose grandfather the University of California's Bacon Hall is named; Bob Holliday, ex-publisher of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin...
...lengths over William du Font's Fairymant; before 27,000 racing fans; at New York's Belmont Park. It was his 20th victory in 35 starts. The $23,050 prize money upped Whirly's life earnings to $347,661-less than $100,000 short of Seabiscuit's all-time record...
...pounds heavier than he was a year ago, to make a personal appearance. First he was to help unveil his own statue, a life-sized bronze by Cowboy Sculptor Tex Wheeler. Then he was to lead the parade to the post for the inaugural running of the Seabiscuit Handicap...
...press preview, when he first saw himself in bronze, the Biscuit tried to take a bite out of Sculptor Wheeler's $25,000 job. But at the unveiling ceremony next day, Seabiscuit behaved with poise befitting a guest of honor. He listened to his encomiums, whinnied with nervous embarrassment while President Leigh Battson of the Los Angeles Turf Club read a poem written by Sportswriter Grantland Rice...
Protesting against the discharge of one of their colleagues (after a knife fight few nights before), the track's 1,500 grooms had called a strike during the Seabiscuit unveiling, refused to lead the horses to the saddling paddock. Flabbergasted fans lined up at the betting windows and admission booths, got back their day's outlay, including parking and program fees...