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...frontier she was met by the Rumanian Train and brought secretly to a suburban royal villa without entering Bucharest. Possibly Dr. Maniu, always a stanch champion of Princess Helen, will manage to patch things up. When he broke with the King two years ago Citizen Maniu reputedly said: "Sire, you can never be crowned unless the mother of Prince Mihai is crowned as Queen by your side...
...band of brigands, attacked them singlehanded. He mistook the sails of a windmill for threatening giants, charged into them to his own near- destruction. After him on muleback plodded a faithful red-faced squire, but with all his remonstrating he had no more control over his crack-brained sire than did the cinemen trying to film the proceedings. The red-faced squire was old George Robey, famed British comedian, playing the part of Sancho Panza, and the rickety don was the great Feeder Ivanovitch Chaliapin, brass-lunged old Russian basso...
...nearly $2,000,000 in prizes. Two more grand old men of trotting distinguished themselves last week, one in Ohio and one in New York, at Goshen where the Grand Circuit reached its peak in the Hambletonian Stakes, one-mile race named for the greatest U. S. trotting sire...
Some three years ago the Earl of Feversham bought one of Pomona's prize stallions, Shelif. A controversy over the purity of Shelif's ancestry followed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). Many Kellogg horses have been sired at Baroness Wentworth's stud in England, including Raseyn, a 7-year-old whose sire Skowronek narrowly escaped being hanged as a royalist in the Russian revolution. Other famed Kellogg horses: Jadaan, who carried the late great Rudolph Valentino on his cinematic sheiking expeditions; Pep and Rossika, trick horses; King John, said to be the only desert-bred Arabian...
...thoroughbred is a breed of horses of the light type common to the race tracks here abroad. A thoroughbred horse whose sire and dame are pure and thereby entitled to registration is known as a pure bred thoroughbred horse...