Word: turf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time of service, $5 when the mare delivers the colt. Some agents, such as C. C. Townsend near San Angelo (who has five Government stallions) accept payment in chickens, eggs, or a calf. Some of the studs are aristocrats, the get of such lords of the turf as Sun Beau and Man o' War. Some compete in such high horse company as the National Horse Show in New York's Madison Square Garden...
...storybook career, the patched-up cripple, after a year's retirement, came back last March to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, won it in the record- breaking time of 2 min., 1⅓ sec., and boosted his lifetime winnings to $437,730, highest in turf history...
...Biscuit tried to take a bite out of Sculptor Wheeler's $25,000 job. But at the unveiling ceremony next day, Seabiscuit behaved with poise befitting a guest of honor. He listened to his encomiums, whinnied with nervous embarrassment while President Leigh Battson of the Los Angeles Turf Club read a poem written by Sportswriter Grantland Rice...
...unveiling ceremony, the crowd dispersed to get their bets down for the first race-$10,000 worth. Then they waited for the bugle to call the horses to the track. They waited, and waited-ten minutes, 20 minutes, 40 minutes, 50 minutes. Finally the loudspeaker spoke: "The Los Angeles Turf Club wishes to announce that it is in no way responsible for the conditions existing today and therefore it is canceling today's program. A quarrel among the grooms of two stables . . . precipitated a strike of all grooms on the grounds...
...manage its new plant, the Golden Gate Turf Club has hired silver-tongued Edward P. ("Slip") Madigan, longtime football coach at St. Mary's College. Slip Madigan knows no more about horse racing than the average $2 better. But neither did Dr. Charles H. Strub, the ex-dentist whose managerial genius made Santa Anita the most fabulous race track in the U. S. If Madigan can do as good a job for Golden Gate Park as he did for little St. Mary's, he will be well worth his $15,000-a-year salary...