Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morris Earle '38; Richard B. Finn '40; D. Gordon Halstead '40; Howard P. Mendel '40; Ernest S. Merrill '40; Thomas Motley '38; Arthur W. Page '40; George W. Phillips '89; ames A. Rousmautere '40; Ernest Sachs '38; Robert W. Scott '38; Robin Scully '40; David Simboli '40; Edward F. Whitney '38; and William A. Gosline...
...horses will enter these races, handicappers at new tracks narrow the limits of weights imposed on the entries, so that a very good horse need not carry much more poundage than a horse whose form is far less impressive. Through the sparkling spectacles of stern young John Hay ("Jock") Whitney-who, as a New York State racing commissioner, Jockey Club member, president of the American Thoroughbred Breeders Association and scion of a great U. S. turf family, typifies Saratoga's rich and formidable August colony-this seems a piece of gross misdoing. In the breakfast room of the gargantuan...
...What Mr. Whitney would like to see more of, he said, was weight-for-age races (Saratoga puts on three of the nation's four) which would encourage owners of good older horses, who are usually handicapped out of racing by the time they are four or five years old, to keep them in training...
...John Hay Whitney's Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the $35,000 Arlington Classic, feature race of the season at Chicago's swank Arlington Park; by half a length from Eagle Pass, owned by Emerson F. Woodward of Houston...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Freeport Sulphur Co. showed $1,279,000 for the half, compared to $1,014,000 in the same period a year ago. Not only a sulphur company is Freeport: near Santiago, Cuba it is now producing 10,000 tons of 'manganese per month. After the manganese tariff was halved following the signing of the reciprocal trade pact with Brazil, a big manganese producer, Freeport's Cuban subsidiary languished until prices rose and another $500,000 was invested in new equipment. This year for the first time since 1934 Freeport's Cuban...