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...would evade the United Kingdom's strict law against lotteries. Originally ten-shilling tickets were to have been sold to anyone who cared to take a purely nominal "test of skill" by arranging "in order of artistic merit" the racing colors of King George and three other prominent turfmen.* After 9,000,000 tickets had been printed and many sold, Scotland Yard suddenly intervened. Stern Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour held the scheme to be a lottery. His Grace the Duke of Atholl had to think fast...
...stretch it was not Ladysman but a 30-1 shot, Kerry Patch, a rank outsider with No. 13 on his saddle cloth, that nosed ahead three-fourths of a length to win the first prize of $88,690. Owned by Lee Rosenberg, a Manhattan cotton broker little known to turfmen, Kerry Patch is not particularly well-bred, had been conspicuously unsuccessful this year...
...racetrack conversation was the method of Phar Lap's training. In the U. S., horses are given constant rigorous tests for speed. Phar Lap engaged in almost no speed trials at all. He cantered slowly for long distances to improve his stamina, stretch all his muscles slowly. U. S. turfmen expected that because of Phar Lap's prestige this method of training might gain popularity; that because of his death, owners of notable racehorses might be reluctant to risk sending them abroad...
...marksmen were assembled to shoot in the annual National Rifle and Pistol Matches. With prizes worth $40,000 (it is the only sporting event supported by Congress), it is to marksmen what the Kentucky Derby is to turfmen, the Poughkeepsie Regatta to oarsmen...
...Rear Admiral" Cary Travers Grayson is "as eminent a turfman as he is a sailor" [TIME, Nov. 7] he must be one of those "turfmen" who follow the horses around the track with a broom and gocart. If Cary...