Word: belmonte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sale in Manhattan "at a substantial reduction from their true worth" went the cobwebbed contents of the wine cellars of Inisfada, Long Island estate of the late Papal Duchess Genevieve Garvan Brady Macaulay. Items: 1901 Belmont Bourbon, 100 proof (case: $125); 1911 Veuve Clicquot champagne (case: $84); Jiminez Varela, Oloroso 1840 sherry (case: $58); Berry Bros. Prince's Port, 50 years in wood, 34 years in bottle (case: $48); Pre-Expulsion Green Chartreuse, 4 litres only (bottle: $1,25).* Burke's Irish Whiskey, 90 proof, believed laid down in 1901 (case...
Contributions, which will be used for the aid of Dutch refugees, can be sent to Professor Auer at 111 Fletcher Road, Belmont; to Reiss at C-32 Hamilton Hall, Harvard Business School; or to Holland-America Lines, 555 Boylston Street, Boston. Reiss asked for "one dollar or less" from each student...
With fewer & fewer owners racing jumpers (and purses consequently decreased), steeplechasing became the monopoly of a few rich stables. Two years ago, 30% of the jumpers at Belmont were owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney, F. Ambrose Clark and Thomas Hitchcock...
Many are the newly-registered racing silks, notably those of New York Racing Commissioner John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who started his stable of jumpers last year; Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, enter prising young president of Belmont; and Hollywood's Cinemagnate Louis...
Mayer, who has spent close to $1,000,000 on thoroughbreds in the last two years. At Belmont last week six or seven horses, in stead of the usual two or three of former years, went to the post in the daily steeplechase events...