Word: sires
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...death by one year antedating his sire...
...security tucked away in the back of his mind, our middle-western friend took his father to dine at the Copley-Plaza. The elder gentleman was certainly on to the ropes; he ordered steamed clams without batting an eye. A warm glow of pride enveloped his admiring son; his sire was acquitting himself nobly. But you know what pride goes before...
...Sire Wilfred Grenfell will speak tonight at 8.00 o'clock in the Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House. His lecture will be accompanied by slides which will include all phases of life on the Labrador coast as well as activities of the Grenfell Mission. A collection will be taken up which will be given to the school and hospital at Cartwright for the support of which the Harvard Grenfell Association is doing its best to raise money...
...stimulus, by removing all its stigma of utility. Always popular in rural communities, harness racing lost favor in Eastern cities in the years following the War. In 1926, William H. Cane, a rich contractor and trotting fancier of Goshen, helped promote the first Hambletonian, named for the famed sire of 95% of U. S. harness racers, for the undreamed of purse of $73,000. The Hambletonian, which promptly became the Kentucky Derby of trotting, has lately caused an astonishing revival of the sport. Last year there were some 700 trotting meets in the U. S. for purses which totaled...
...brood mare to the new dynasty, and since her husband would not or could not serve her, the breeders did not much care who did. When she foaled her first-born (afterwards the mad Tsar Paul) it was of little interest to anyone but Catherine that its sire was one Saltykov. The child was immediately taken away from her by the Empress...