Word: siring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In reporting Bold Venture's Kentucky Derby victory, TIME [May n] says that Bold Venture is a half-brother to a previous Derby winner -Twenty Grand. Geneticists notwithstanding, to thoroughbred horsemen Bold Venture and Twenty Grand are not half-brothers-they are "by the same sire." In layman's language, two horses with the same father and the same mother are full brothers or full sisters. Example: Omaha and Flares. Two horses with the same mother but different fathers are half-brothers or half-sisters. Example: Petee Wrack and Gallant Fox. Two horses with different mothers...
...that time, Top Row's chief claim upon the attention of the turf world had been his name. His sire was Peanuts, his dam Too High. The combination had suggested to his owner, Mrs. W. Plunket Stewart, the last row of seats in the peanut gallery. As a racehorse, Top Row had appeared mainly in "claiming" races- minor events for mediocre horses in which each entry is for sale at a specified price, for which he can be claimed by anyone who wants him. In these his efforts had been so undistinguished that Mr. Baroni...
...official curriculum, benefiting not only those professionally inclined, but also serving the many students for whom drama is an avocation, and broadcasting the cultural and educational opportunities offered here. There is no prominent college in the country that does not include such a program and yet the grand-sire of them all lags behind where once...
...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...