Word: three-year-old
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...down the odds and finally, when this failed to discourage Greyhound's backers, scratched him off their boards. By winning the second heat in 1934 Greyhound became the first trotter to take the Hambletonian Stake in straight heats since Walter Dear in 1929. A lean, grey, three-year-old gelding, singularly unimpressive when not in fast motion, he ambled back to the finish line, received a wreath of roses and an embrace from the weather-beaten driver with whom he had earned $18.000 (winner's share of the $33,000 purse) for his owner, Edward I J. Baker...
...Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's three-year-old filly Black Helen: the $25,000 added American Derby; with Mrs. John D. Hertz's Count Arthur half a length behind; at Washington Park, Chicago...
...England, the Aga Khan's only considerable competition as a winning racehorse owner has been supplied by Lord Derby whose Bobsleigh was considered the one horse in last week's Derby which had a chance of beating unbeaten Bahram. When Bobsleigh was scratched, Bahram, a bay three-year-old by Blandford, who also sired the Aga Khan's 1930 Derby winner, Blenheim, went to the post at the phenomenally low odds, for a 16-horse race, of 5-to-4. He broke well, was in fourth place going downhill toward Tattenham Corner, came into the straightaway third...
...Astral Oil," a clear-burning, high-grade brand of kerosene refined on Long Island by two bright young men named Charles Pratt and H. H. Rogers. John Rockefeller bought out their firm in 1874, taking the two partners with him. At that time Herbert Lee Pratt was a three-year-old in the oilman's large family. When he was 23 and his father had grown exceedingly rich as a Rockefeller henchman. Son Herbert was graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1895 along with Dwight Morrow and Calvin Coolidge...
...Kentucky Derby in 1930. went on to become for a time the greatest U. S. money horse ($328,165) and, by siring Omaha, the third derby winner to beget another derby winner. Tall, quiet, courteous, Mr. Woodward grew so excited during Gallant Fox's three-year-old campaign that he lost co Ib. He plans to start Omaha on a similar campaign with the Preakness this week at Pimlico, near the Belair stud where Woodward horses are raised along Mr. Woodward's own studiously reasoned lines of breeding. So horse-minded is he that when his wife...