Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record-breaking trials, railbirds were beginning once more to hail Johnstown as one of the great horses of all time, when he was beaten again by Challedon in the Arlington Classic at Chicago. If Johnstown recovers his lost prestige at Saratoga (and most turfmen think that he will), William Woodward may have another great champion to retire to stud...
...Breeder. As it does with no other U. S. racehorse man, raising comes before racing with William Woodward. He likes to win races. When his turf career was crowned last year by Flares' (son of Gallant Fox) victory in the Ascot Gold Cup, the longest (2½ mi.) important flat race in the world,* Owner Woodward made a proud round of Manhattan's swankest clubs. But William Woodward had been breeding horses for 13 years before he began racing them...
Fresh out of Harvard Law School in 1902, William Woodward was introduced to racing at Ascot and Newmarket while working in London as secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph Choate. In 1910, on the death of his uncle, Banker James T. Woodward, young Bill inherited not only controlling interest in Manhattan's Hanover National Bank, but also the famed Belair Stud, a 3,000-acre farm at Collington, Prince Georges County, Md., close by the spot where his paternal ancestors first settled...
...years?since the day in 1747 when its first owner, Governor Samuel Ogle of Maryland, brought with him from England a stallion named Spark and a broodmare named Queen Mab, two of the earliest thoroughbreds ever imported to the U. S.? But in the 29 years that zealous William Woodward has been master of Belair, its name has become far more famed than it ever was under generations of Ogles...
...wanted. He evidently got what he was looking for. Last spring Horse & Horseman selected Woodward's 19-year-old Marguerite?whose four colts (Petee-Wrack, Gallant Fox, Fighting Fox and Foxbrough II) have earned over a half million dollars?as the most eminent broodmare in America. When in 1923 William Woodward felt that he was ready to pit his thoroughbreds against the best in the U. S., he began to race...