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Word: silverskin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Hitchcock's Silverskin in a steeplechase, Latin Stables' Ha Ha in a flat race, won with both. For the last four years, young Pete Bostwick has been the leading amateur jockey in the U. S. Two years ago, in England, he rode ten winners out of 25 mounts. Now 22, he began to ride at 7. His first teacher was his famed aunt, Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, "mother of U. S. polo." Another teacher was his uncle. F. Ambrose Clark, who still drives a coach & four at Westbury, L. I. and goes abroad every year to hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gentleman Jockey | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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