Word: winne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year the Kentucky Derby's portly, 84-year-old impresario, Colonel Matt Winn, has upped the stakes from $75,000 to $100,000. But it is not the stakes alone that make the Derby indisputably the U.S. turf classic. Out-of-towners will blow about $8 million in Louisville this week-yet somehow the Derby manages to be the one event in the year when horse racing is least of all big business, and most of all sport. The Derby is Kentucky's great...
...keep it so, Matt Winn has a bustling publicity staff, including almost everybody in central Kentucky, working for nothing. Professional Kentuckians, over the traditional Derby breakfast (Kentucky ham and beaten biscuits), talk grandly of fine horses, fine whiskey, fine tobacco, and beautiful women. The race is the red stuffing in a very plump olive. Kentuckians, acting for one week the way Texans and Southern Californians do for 52, are out-this year, after three wartime "streetcar" Derbies, way out-to welcome the free-spending outlanders...
...William Winn McGinniss...
Last week General Marshall was photographed at the circus with his three-year-old step-grandson, Jimmy Winn (see cut). Citizen-Soldier George Marshall believes that Jimmy will have to know how to do a soldier...
...Louisville, with most of last year's two-year-old glamor horses benched, not even Colonel Matt Winn's well-oiled tub-thumping machinery could make the 71st Kentucky Derby much more than just another horse race. Hoop Jr. splashed his way to a six-length victory in the richest Derby on record (winner's value: $64,850). Second: Calumet Farm's favored Pot o' Luck...