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...been administrator of Philadelphia's Wil-stach Fund, income from which must be used to buy paintings for the city's Pennsylvania Museum of Art. With the seven-year accrual of $160,000 in his drawing account and his usual pearl-grey fedora on his head, Turfman Widener set out for Europe last year to scout for bargains. "I am not sympathetic with modern art," said Mr. Widener blandly. "What I think we should do is acquire the classics-those paintings which have lived through the centuries." Uppermost in Mr. Widener's mind, he said...
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...
...Manhattan capitalist and famed trotting-horse breeder (Uhlan, Lou Dillon, The Harvester, Major Delmar); of pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif. At 18 he entered Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., succeeded his father as president in 1887, became board chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon Co. in 1929; Turfman Billings was celebrated for his "horseback" parties at Manhattan's Sherry's. Guests rode their horses into the elevators, ascended to the dining room while mounted, were served by liveried waiters while their horses munched oats...
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...