Word: turfman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White-haired Mrs. Samuel D. Riddle, wife of Philadelphia's 76-year-old turfman, has a sentimental custom: when Trainer George Conway thinks there is an especially promising race horse in her husband's stable, she knits him a woolen pommel cloth. Knitted pommel cloths went to Crusader, Scapa Flow, War Glory. Most famed horse that got one was their sire, Man o' War. Latest beneficiary of Mrs. Riddle's knitting needles is another one of Man o' War's sons, an undersized three-year-old named War Admiral. Last week, War Admiral made...
Early last spring, he received a mysterious letter from a stranger who demanded $2,500 and seven old shirts in return for his "unbeatable" system of betting on the races, threatened Turfman Vanderbilt with bad luck unless he complied by May 30. Turfman Vanderbilt ignored the letter. On May 30, Cherry Orchard fell at the start, breaking his jockey's collarbone. Airilame was defeated for the first time, and all three Vanderbilt entries in a third race inexplicably failed to live up to expectations. At Saratoga, an epidemic of coughing ruined the chances of the promising Vanderbilt string...
...Milky Way stable won a total of $206,450. Alfred Vanderbilt was second with $159,545. When the year started, young Mr. Vanderbilt was considered likely to repeat his record of 1935 as leading money winner. In an article published by Peter Vischer's Horse & Horseman, Turfman Vanderbilt last month related some of the reasons why he failed...
...difference between the races for the cup put up by William K. Vanderbilt in 1904, which was the major event of U. S. auto racing before the War, and next month's race, for which the trophy was donated by his 22-year-old cousin George (brother of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt) will be the road. The original Vanderbilt Cup racecourse was over Long Island's oiled dirt roads. Roosevelt Raceway is an extraordinary establishment conceived by the first U. S. winner (1908) of the old Vanderbilt Cup race. Major George Robertson. After the War Major Robertson admired...
Died. Sir James Buchanan, Baron Woolavington, 85, longtime turfman, wealthy distiller (Buchanan whiskey); after long illness; in Petworth, England. Twice a Derby winner (1922-26), he never bet on a horse...