Word: turf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days for California railbirds. Not only was it the day of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, world's richest horse race, but this was the now-or-never race for doughty old Seabiscuit, darling of U. S. racing fans, Cinderella of the turf...
Provisions of the gift make the polo team responsible for keeping the turf in repair. Forbes will provide for the upkeep of the field, taking care of fertilization, cutting, and wetting...
Country Life is a horsy magazine comprising all that is left of Polo, The Sportsman, Horse & Horseman. Its editor & publisher is an ardent turf lover named Peter Vischer. In this month's Country Life, Editor Vischer had a few paragraphs to say about "the custom becoming more and more prevalent among track operators of paying the 'expenses' of newspapermen doing the work their papers assign them to do, of putting them up cost-free at their clubhouses or elsewhere, even of putting them on the payroll...
Last week, with a legislative Donnybrook impending over New York's newly voted pari-mutuel system, Manhattan turf writers had plenty to write about...