Word: semblat
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...earner on British tracks. He was already the French Deader by a country kilometer. Back of his long string of victories is a string of 300 horses including 100 brood mares and eight stud stallions. About 100 of the horses are always in training under oldtime French Jockey Charles Semblat. When they cross the Channel, they travel in a special Bristol...
...Paris workmen in the field blinked the sweat out of their eyes for the start of the Prix de la Porte Maillot, day before the Grand-Prix last week. Most of them had bet on the U. S. favorite. Joseph E. Widener's El-Kantara, French Jockey Semblat up. When the barrier went up to send the horses off clockwise around the track, El-Kantara twitched back to his counterclockwise U. S. training, whirled and started off in the opposite direction...
...French horse, Pepino, paying 9-to-1, managed to win the race before a workman threw the first chair over the rail. Then the hot, short-tempered crowd turned mob, rolled out of the stands into the track yelling against Jockey Semblat, the bookmakers, Pepino, the Government and Alexandre Stavisky. They set fire to half a dozen betting booths and piles of hay, tore down fences and Grand-Prix decorations. The horses lined up for the next race but when the crowd did not budge, it was the chargers of the decorative Republican Guards that came pounding down the stretch...
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