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...racehorse Osculator: the $10,000 Havre de Grace handicap at 20-to-1, by a length, from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny'') Whitney's famed Equipoise; before a record crowd of 25,000 come to see Equipoise run his farewell race before being retired to stud. Equipoise's total winnings, $322,970, make him fourth biggest moneymaker in turf history...
...department:--"Hunecker and Mencken did more than any other two men of the century to thin the ranks of the literary stud horses from Vassar and the fillies from Harvard...
...landed him in the patent leather pumps of one of Manhattan's 400; with a $600,000 string of pearls for his wife (the second Mrs. Cosden by that time), with a million-dollar estate on Long Island, a two-million dollar home at Palm Beach, a stud farm in Virginia. It was at the Cosden home, "The Cedars," at Port Washington, L. I., that on the morning of Sept. 10, 1924, after the master and his guests had returned from an entertainment for the Prince of Wales, a thief slipped into the Cosden's bedroom and took...
Middleton Park, Ireland-his stud farm...
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...