Word: stallions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be. Remount is bossed by an ex-cavalryman, tall, tweedy Colonel Edwin Noel Hardy of Tennessee. Devout horseman, he glories in the 14,000 foals a year that Remount stallions are siring-a value of $1.500,000 at a cost of $80,000. In his Washington office he points proudly to a wall map stuck full of red pins. It is no tactical map; it is full of horse interest. Says West Pointer Hardy, "Wherever you see a pin, suh, theah stands a stallion...
Among the sufferers of last summer's Blitzkrieg were Mon Talisman and Clairvoyant, famous French thoroughbred race horses. From the time of the Nazi invasion their whereabouts was a mystery. Mon Talisman, a magnificent black stallion, had won six firsts and two seconds in eight starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) and Prix du President de la République (richest French handicap). Clairvoyant, his chestnut son, won five firsts in six starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club and the Grand Prix de Paris; altogether won 1,914,650 francs...
...second floor over to animal Society. The Society portraitist was pretty, petite, 28-year-old June Harrah, who sculps likenesses of champion dogs and race horses for the doggy and horsy set. Sculptress Harrah's deft statuettes (of such equestrian nobility as Seabiscuit, Challedon and Jadaan, the grey stallion ridden by the late Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik) excited horse-& dog-lovers, also brought high marks from many a high-brow art critic. Daughter of a gentleman rancher who founded the town of Harrah, Wash., June Harrah also likes animals better than people, rates the race...
...foxy, old Fred Egan, was no great shakes as a two-year-old. But this year, thanks to careful nursing of his weak hocks. Baby (as he is known around the barns) outstepped his rivals in three of the four major tune-ups for the Hambletonian: Indianapolis' Stallion Stake, Toledo's Matron Stake and Narragansett's National Stake. At Goshen last week Fred Egan's Baby did not let his followers down. He made a runaway of the first heat, crossed the finish line (half a length in front of Remus, two in front of Kuno...
...James Rolph III, daughter-in-law of the late Governor of California: a ver dict of not guilty of slandering the thoroughbred stallion, War Glory, owned by Mrs. Frank Carreaud of Texas (TIME, Aug. 5); after a jury deliberated for nine hours; in Federal District Court, San Francisco...