Word: turfmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delighted newsmen, and the bride's trousseau enchanted the photographers. Arriving from their "Shangrila" retreat in Sea Island, Ga., they went their own ways for a while on their first night in town. The Veep showed up at a stag dinner of thoroughbred racers and wowed both the turfmen and the television audience by remarking: "In order to be here I interrupted one of the loveliest honeymoons in which I have ever indulged...
...best horses in the East were running at fashionable, old-fashioned Saratoga and at streamlined Garden State, but turfmen's thoughts strayed elsewhere. At Rockingham Park at Salem, N.H., under two circus tents, 43 emaciated thoroughbreds stood listlessly cooling their fevered noses in buckets of water. Their hind legs twitched; some fell. By last weekend, seven of them had died, or been destroyed, because of a swamp fever epizootic (animal equivalent of epidemic). The New Hampshire veterinary ordered every one of the 930 horses at Rockingham quarantined there indefinitely...
Judy Johnson inherited her horsiness from her father, Trainer Ed Johnson, who saddled many a stake winner, both here and abroad, for such eminent turfmen as the late William C. Whitney, Foxhall Keene and John McEntee Bowman. Little Judy was a capable rider at the age of eight, helped her father break in yearlings by the time...
...Count Fleet goes on to win the Kentucky Derby next week he will make John Hertz one of the world's luckiest turfmen. A little over a year ago, Hertz was willing to sell the son of Reigh Count for $4,500. The colt's conformation was faulty: his weight and power had grown in front instead of behind, where experts insist it should be. His forelegs were slightly knock-kneed and he ran with his head held high like a show horse. He seemed destined to be no greater than his mother, a commonplace selling plater named...
During the past year $517,382,107 were bet in the pari-mutuels at U.S. race tracks -$100,000,000 more than the national handle in 1940. Recalling that horse racing boomed during World War I, U.S. turfmen last week wondered what to expect in 1942, watched with fingers crossed the opening week at Miami's Tropical Park...