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...favorite to win. His owner had sold Big Pebble to the Moores two years ago. Though it was the first time Champion Bimelech had ever finished out of the money, it was probably his last race. Word was that he would be sent to stud to replace his famed sire, Black Toney...
William Clark, graduate of the College in 1912 and the Law School in 1915, recently appointed to the Circuit Court of Appeals, and sire of Blair Clark, 1939-40 Crimson president, is the gentleman being back-patted. It seems that Federal Judge Clark has a quaintness-appeal. He is a two-fisted, raw-meat-eating, "trouble-shooting" bravadero; and at the same time a judge. This combination might ordinarily react like grapefruit and milk. But when a dash of good old Harvard indifference is thrown in with the mixture the result is something skin to gunpowder. The first big issue...
...billing. But the jumper who has brought down the house night after night, year after year, is Little Squire, a white gelding only 13.2 hands high (4 ft. 5 in.). Little Squire was born in County Limerick 15 years ago. His dam was a Welsh pony, his sire an unknown thoroughbred. When he was six (and known as First Attempt), he humbled Ireland's best "leppers," jumping 6 ft. 6 in. in the stonewall class at Dublin's famed Horse Show...
...Rumania's richest industrialist, has long been Mihai's playmate, but her father was jailed last week as a suspected grafter and the young King seemed to take no interest. Over the air waves Rumanians heard new Dictator Antonescu say significantly to new Puppet King Mihai: "Sire, a prayer to God to help Your Majesty...
Seven years ago Mrs. Carreaud bought War Glory, a three-year-old Man o' War colt. Like his famed sire, War Glory was a handsome chestnut. On Eastern tracks he won many a race, brought Mrs. Carreaud $55,000 before he was retired to stud in 1937. Fall of that year, Mrs. Carreaud leased War Glory to Mrs. Rolph who, like many another fashionable young Californian, was going in for breeding thoroughbreds-partly as a hobby, partly as a business. The lease was for four years (at $5,000 a year), with a clause permitting cancellation, for any reason...