Word: thankerton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the departure of the Queen Mary (see p. 17) at 3:15, the field got away smoothly. On a track baked rocky hard, following the Aga Khan's instructions, Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took the lead. Coming into the straightaway, big. grey Mahmoud, whom over-skeptical bookmakers, considering him a mere sprinter, had rated at 100-to-8, began to run. He crossed the finish three lengths ahead of Taj Akbar, most highly favored of the Aga Khan's three entries, with a new record...
...cost $2.50 each. Of this, $1 goes into the Hospital Fund and operating expenses, the remainder into prizes. Twenty major prizes, a total of $3,304,780 went to U. S. ticket-holders last week. Most preposterous winner was Mrs. Austin Jackson, Newark Negro, who won $50,000 on Thankerton. Afraid of being kidnapped, she bolted her door, locked her windows, pulled down the shades, refused to come out for three days...
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