Word: siring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Farmer Charles Lewis was proud of his thoroughbred Jersey bull, sire of all the calves born on the Lewis farm at Burlington, N. J. Farmer Lewis' children were just as proud of a pet monkey their father had given them. All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine. Wary it avoided the bull-until one day last week...
...official facts on costly bank investments were revealed. A report was made by the sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency which began a dignified investigation of the U. S. banking system in February (TIME, Feb. 16). Chairman of the inquiry was Virginia's Senator Glass, legislative sire of the Federal Reserve and arch foe of stock speculation. Each Reserve district was asked: "On which type of investment do you find banks have suffered the largest losses?" Among the answers were...