Word: turf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While New York race-track owners were moaning over the idea of local competition and turf men from coast to coast were frowning on the current overexpansion of the horse-racing business (there will be over 60 supposedly Grade A tracks in the U. S. next year), California went a step further in using horse racing to balance a budget. To Governor Olson, the State Legislature last week sent a bill legalizing (and supervising) poolroom bookmaking and other away-from-the-track horse-race betting. Taxation on California's handbook betting (which is not limited to California tracks) will...
When William Woodward's Johnstown won the Kentucky Derby by six lengths last fortnight, horse-racing fans hailed an-other Man o' War. Turf experts reserved their opinions. They wanted to see long-striding Johnstown run in the mud, something he had not been asked to do this year. Last week there was lots of mud for the Preakness, second of the Big Three U. S. races for three-year-olds. So convinced of Big John's prowess were rival owners that only five were willing to risk the $500 starting fee (day before) to match their...
Considered by some turf experts the most promising young rider since Earl Sande hung up his tack, 17-year-old Johnny Oros did not grow up on horseback, like most jockeys. Until four years ago the nearest he came to a horse was the shanks' mare on which he used to deliver groceries for his father's little emporium in Aurora, Ill. When Father Oros decided to trade his grocery store for a stable of third-rate thoroughbreds, Johnny learned to ride a horse...
...baked southern diamonds and springy turf played havoc with an indoor-trained infield and outfield, and accounted for the dropping of more than one nip-and-tuck slugfest. Weeks ahead of the Crimson players in condition, and playing on home grounds, Tar Heels, Blue Devils, and Middies successively got the breaks to take hard fighting Harvard into camp...
...troubles too. The ballyhooed duel between Samuel Riddle's War Admiral and Maxwell (no relation) Howard's Stagehand fizzled when the pampered Riddle colt developed a slight fever three days before the race-when every seat in the Park had been sold. But Florida turf fans did not lose interest either...