Word: winner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actually, few racing men seriously believed Blue Shirt would win, but there was always an off chance that the public might for once be right. Bookies, like frightened stockbrokers, forced odds down to 8-to-1 to save their skins. Among knowing racegoers, however, the most likely winners were considered to be Royal Mail, winner last year; Delachance, the likeliest American-owned starter; and Cooleen, hope of Irishmen because she ran second last year...
...Battleship was the first Grand National winner to have been both U.S.-bred and owned. (Rubio, the hotel bus-horse which won in 1908, had been born in the U. S. but was British-owned. Three U. S.-owned, British-bred horses have...
...Somerville Scott, wife of Cinemactor Randolph Scott. She landed in England in time to reach Aintree only two hours before the race. Dressed in horsy tweeds and a Robin Hood hat, Mrs. Scott was jammed in the crowd after the finish, could not lead her horse in as the winner's owner usually does. When she finally reached Battleship's stable, she patted his neck with mixed emotions. Said she: "I am glad I won the Grand National. I didn't have a bet on the race...
Wyeth, who won the Lee Wade award, delivered the address given by Robert Emmet in his own defense when he was sentenced to death for treason. McAllester, winner of the first Boylston Prize, recited excerpts from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Christmas Sermon...
...Britain, announcement No. 1 brought a bustle of official comment, including a proposal for an athletic boycott of Japan from H. F. Pash, of the British A. A. A. But the U. S. bustle was about announcement No. 2. In the 1936 Olympics, U. S. colleges contributed Jesse Owens, winner in the 100 and 200 metres, broad jump, relay; John Woodruff, 800 metres; Archie Williams, 400 metres; Forrest Towns and Glenn Hardin, hurdles; Cornelius Johnson, high jump; and Earle Meadows, pole vault. When I. O. C., over U. S., British and French protests, set a date requiring athletes...