Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...been the most exciting thing to be seen on U. S. tracks: William Woodward's Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up. Last week on the last day of racing at Belmont Park, L. I., Gallant Fox won his ninth great victory of the season, the Jockey Club Gold Cup. He was quoted at the unplayed odds...
Gallant Fox has two more engagements this year?the Pimlico Cup and the Laionia championship. He is almost sure to be withdrawn from the Pimlico race and will not run at Latonia unless conditions are perfect. In other words, if it rains on the day of the Latonia championship (begins Sept. 27), Gallant Fox may never run again. He will be retired to William Woodward's stud at Belair, Md. A promising three-year-old in April, he has become the greatest money-winner in the history of the U. S. turf. Beside the Jockey Club's Cup...
Third Race. The sun was bright off Newport and a good breeze from Block Island (west southwest) turned the slow seas of the day before into a chop. There were about half as many yachts around the starting line as for the first two America's Cup races of 1930. People had been saying that Enterprise could not lose so long as Skipper Vanderbilt kept sail on her. The course signals were up and both boats jockeyed at the line like boxers feeling each other out. Now the first drama of the series occurred. Captain Heard on Shamrock V timed...
Nineteen years later the flagon had been furbished up, called the America's Cup, put in competition for the second time. Jubilee Jim Fiske, arrayed in white & gold as the admiral of his Narragansett Line, watched the challenger?James Ashbury's Cambria?come in tenth in a field of 24. Nothing daunted, James Ashbury sailed to the U. S. the following year in the Livonia and lost four out of seven match races. Later came the Earl of Dunraven in 1893. He challenged and lost with Valkyrie II. Two years later he built Valkyrie III to race against C. Oliver...
...America's Cup races seemed at an end, for English and American yachtsmen were almost literally at swords' points. But in 1899 came Sir Thomas Lipton, flying the burgee of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. He has competed for the trophy more than any other man (five times) and the races, which until his participation had never been without acrimony, became graced with the most decorous of seagoing courtesy...