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...Last week at A. S. Hewitt's breeding arm near White Post, Va., Le Ksar's famed sire, Ksar, died of an internal hemorrhage...
...thriving ($4) Hanover Shoe Co. (128 stores), founded Hanover Shoe Farms near the Sheppard homestead at Hanover, Pa. A strictly blue-ribbon breeding farm, Hanover Shoe Farms owns such famed stallions as Sandy Flash, Dillon Axworthy, the 1926 Hambletonian winner Guy McKinney, and Shirley Hanover's sire, Mr. McElwyn...
...even though he had been proposed at the request of King Edward VII, had spent a fortune trying to win the America's Cup for Britain. Furious with the Committee, King Edward reputedly summoned the Commodore, asked: "Can't it be done?" Replied the Commodore: "It can, Sire,* but if it is, the R. Y. S. will have but two members-yourself and Sir Thomas...
...turfman, has a sentimental custom: when Trainer George Conway thinks there is an especially promising race horse in her husband's stable, she knits him a woolen pommel cloth. Knitted pommel cloths went to Crusader, Scapa Flow, War Glory. Most famed horse that got one was their sire, Man o' War. Latest beneficiary of Mrs. Riddle's knitting needles is another one of Man o' War's sons, an undersized three-year-old named War Admiral. Last week, War Admiral made his appearance at Churchill Downs, as 9-to-5 favorite in the biggest...
...over the winter. He finally contrived to grow from 15 hands to 15 hands, 3 inches. Listed in the Derby winter books at 15-to-1, War Admiral's odds dropped fast when he won two races at Havre de Grace this spring. In both he exhibited his sire's famed trait of taking the lead at the start, keeping it to the finish. Like Man o' War, War Admiral has a slightly peevish disposition. Much of the eight-minute delay at last week's start was caused by his reluctance to stay in his stall...