Word: turfdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual ring of authority. Nobody had to look far to find the favorites in this week's 72nd Kentucky Derby.* They were two-Lord Boswell and Knockdown -and both belong to fluttery Cosmeti-queen Elizabeth Arden Graham, whose Maine Chance Farm Stable has the winningest ways in U.S. turfdom. Early this week, they were prohibitive favorites...
...Rounders, Texas Oilman Emerson F. Woodward's up-&-coming Irish-bred colt: the $25,000 Arlington Handicap; defeating (by three and a half lengths) turfdom's leading money winner, Whirlaway, who collected a mere $4,000 in second money; before a closing-day crowd of 30,000 at Chicago's Arlington Park. (Fortnight ago Rounders placed second in the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap, when Whirlaway upped his earnings to $454,336 to eclipse Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in horse-racing history...
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