Word: turfman
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...either raising or racing thoroughbreds. Six years ago, on his 21st birthday, he inherited his mother's magnificent stud farm and racing stable, invested half a million or more in Pimlico and Belmont Park race tracks, is well on his way to becoming America's No. 1 turfman. Young Labrot, whose ancestors made a fortune in rum, is carrying on where his father left off in 1935-requesting that his sons refrain from racing for five years after his death. Young Brady, grandson of the late Financier Anthony Nicholas Brady (who left an estate...
...Saratoga, bought nine yearlings, hired Oldtimer Henry McDaniel to train them. What young Chrysler lacked in turf knowledge, he began to pick up from old Uncle Henry, who in his 73 years has trained horses for Lucky Baldwin, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Joseph Widener and many another famed U. S. turfman...
...York's elegant $4,000,000 Belmont Park, founded in 1905 by Granduncle William K. Vanderbilt, William C. Whitney and August Belmont. At 27, Alfred Vanderbilt, president of two of the most important race tracks in the country, was fast getting into position as the No. 1 turfman...
...sincere desire to give the public what it wants. At Pimlico he introduced the unprecedented policy of a stake race every day, removed the famed infield hillock that obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans (potentially increased for 1940 because of the recent legalization of pari-mutuel betting at New York tracks...
...Woodward, who owns one of the finest stables of race horses in the world, had won two Derbies before (with Gallant Fox in 1930 and Omaha in 1935) and had won Great Britain's coveted Ascot Gold Cup last year with Flares, a son of Gallant Fox. But Turfman Woodward, a serious student of blood lines, took special pride in his long-legged Johnstown, whom railbirds nicknamed "Big John." It was his idea to breed his fleet-footed Jamestown with La France, a beautiful little mare who, because of a broken hip, never could race. Johnstown was their foal...