Word: woolavington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheerily as if to show his indifference to the rain that beat a tattoo on his roof -like drumming hoofs, he thought. King George of England sat staring politely into the same rain from a box at a race track. In a leather chair in Berkeley Square, London, Lord Woolavington (once Sir James Buchanan) regarded the lengthening silver ash of his cigar, and though separated from each other by space and, apparently by opposing interests, the fortunes of these three gentlemen were interwoven inextricably. They, of all the gentlemen of England, were most concerned in the 143rd English Derby, which...
...none of these. The horse that swept under the barrier as smoothly as a cob out for its morning canter, five lengths ahead of Lancegay, which ran second, was a horse owned by James Buchanan† (now Lord Woolavington), who sat alone with his cigar at Berkeley Square. It was a horse upon which Robert Bishop,** insurance clerk, held the winning ticket in the Calcutta Sweepstakes worth $600,000.‡ It was a horse for which King George of England politely rose to cheer. It was Coronach...
...Bishop said he was "too busy to go to horse races." The Derby was an old story to Lord Woolavington; his Captain Cuttle...
Peers interested in the combine are Lords Dewar, Woolavington, Forteviot, Stevenson...
...from 1780 to the present day) his golden spurs, a much coveted prize offered by the Jockey Club of England to the jockey who wins the Derby three times in succession. Donoghue won the 1921 race on J. B. Joel's Humorist and the 1922 race on Lord Woolavington's Captain Cuttle. His other wins were: 1915, S. Joel's Pommern; 1917, Mr. " Fairie's " Gay Crusader...