Word: stud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of an admitted lack of emotional insight, Mr. De Casseres would consider Mencken the greatest stimulator of his age. He says, "Huneker and Mencken did more than any other two men of the century to thin the ranks of the literary stud-horses of Vassar and the fillies of Harvard." Mr. De Casseres forgets that at times he himself is nothing more than a just-mad gelding going through the motions of an aphrodisiacal stallion. But that is the privilege of one whose prose and thought, to twist his own words, "is a boreal rhetoric, a hissing, headlong ecstasy...
...almost sure to be withdrawn from the Pimlico race and will not run at Latonia unless conditions are perfect. In other words, if it rains on the day of the Latonia championship (begins Sept. 27), Gallant Fox may never run again. He will be retired to William Woodward's stud at Belair, Md. A promising three-year-old in April, he has become the greatest money-winner in the history of the U. S. turf. Beside the Jockey Club's Cup he won the Wood Memorial, the Preakness, the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Dwyer Stakes, Arlington Classic, Saratoga Cup, Lawrence...
...Gallant Fox, Derby favorite, three-year-old bay of the Belair stud, strong and heavily built, in tremendous lines of speed and strength: the $10,000 Wood Memorial stakes at Jamaica N. Y., with Earle Sande up, riding his first New York race since...
Racing Committee: Colonel Philip Chinn of Lexington; Arnold Hanger, whose stable has horses like Victorian and The Nut in it; Rogers Caldwell of Nashville who owns Hourless, now in stud, and who bred the fine mare Lady Broadcast that won the Canadian Derby...