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...performance he repeated two years later with Gay Crusader. In 1921 Jockey Donoghue became a British hero when he brought in his third Derby winner, the 6-to-1 shot Humorist, who dropped dead from heart failure six weeks after the race. The following year, when his mount, Lord Woolavington's big Captain Cuttle, showed up lame just before the starting parade and the odds jumped to 10-to-1, Steve Donoghue rode to his smoothest Derby victory. When he won again the next year with Ben Irish's 100-to-15 shot Papyrus, he and his mount...
Left. By Sir James Buchanan, Baron Woolavington, horse-racing whiskey tycoon (TIME, Aug. 19): $35,000,000, mostly to his daughter, who paid an estate...
Died. Sir James Buchanan, Baron Woolavington, 85, longtime turfman, wealthy distiller (Buchanan whiskey); after long illness; in Petworth, England. Twice a Derby winner (1922-26), he never bet on a horse...
...mile. The Maharajah of Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday on his estate at Old Windsor, watched his horse and smiled. At the head of the stretch, the crowd saw three horses- Windsor Lad, Lord Woolavington's Easton and Colombo-pound out in front of the field. In the stretch Colombo was running splendidly and catching up on the other two. At the finish-in 2:34 to equal last year's track record-Windsor Lad was still ahead with Easton second and Colombo third...
...Bishop said he was "too busy to go to horse races." The Derby was an old story to Lord Woolavington; his Captain Cuttle...