Word: turf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neighbors and contemporary scions of the No. 1 family of the U. S. turf, 33-year-old John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and his 38-year-old first cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney have had to learn how to do the same things all their lives without suggesting rivalry. While Cousin Sonny maintained the famed racing establishment he inherited from his father, Harry Payne Whitney, Cousin Jock built up a stable of racers equal to the great Greentree Stable his mother inherited from his father, (William) Payne Whitney. Jock has interested Sonny in Technicolor, just as Sonny interested...
...carry much more poundage than a horse whose form is far less impressive. Through the sparkling spectacles of stern young John Hay ("Jock") Whitney-who, as a New York State racing commissioner, Jockey Club member, president of the American Thoroughbred Breeders Association and scion of a great U. S. turf family, typifies Saratoga's rich and formidable August colony-this seems a piece of gross misdoing. In the breakfast room of the gargantuan old Grand Union Hotel* last week he rose to address the convened National Association of State Racing Commissioners on this subject...
...whose horses were of such popularity that terms could be demanded prior to the publication of the conditions. It is called a handicap, but it certainly is not an open handicap, and I have tried to think of a name with which to characterize this outrageous travesty on the turf's great races. There is only one-the sucker handicap. The size of the stake is so great and the possibilities of something happening in any big race so ever present, that owners of horses without a possible chance at the weights are lured into competition by a beautiful...
...doing the virtuous thing at the risk of losing readers. Announced he: "The Dallas News and the Dallas Journal, believing that anti-racing legislation expresses the will of the people of the State, have discontinued publication of racing charts, selections and results of horse racing. Space heretofore devoted to turf activities will be used to present news of greater reader interest. The decision to discontinue horse-racing news is made on short notice without consulting other newspapers...
Other two Dallas dailies are the Times-Herald and Dispatch, both afternoon papers. The Times-Herald, whose 71,000 circulation runs 21,000 ahead of the Journal, lost no time proclaiming itself the only paper in town carrying complete turf news. The Dispatch (5,000 behind the Journal), which has been soft-pedaling racing news lately, did not change policy. Of the letters and telegrams received by the News and Journal, it was reported that 15-to-1 approved their position. In any event, Dallas merchants, who naturally are opposed to seeing potential customers spend their money with bookmakers...