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...Willis Sharpe Kilmer's six-year-old race horse Sun Beau: the $19,450 Arlington Cup race, at Chicago, increasing his total winnings to $302,794 ($37,871 below the record made by Gallant...
...their dais and guests strolled round the park, great black clouds rolled in from the north. With a crash the downpour descended. Women screamed, brave men ran. Their Majesties were comparatively safe under their canopy, soon reached the sanctuary of Holyrood Palace under enormous umbrellas held by gallant Scots, but the Duke & Duchess of York got as wet as any commoners. Debutantes wept unrestrainedly, their best dresses ruined...
...when he won the Belmont in 1920. Sometimes, especially when a horse not entered in the Kentucky Derby meets the Derby winner in the Belmont, it is a great match race. It was supposed to be a match race a year ago when William Woodward's Derby-winner Gallant Fox (later the greatest money horse-$38,165-in racing history) beat the late Harry Payne Whitney's Which-one by four lengths. It was supposed to be a match race again last week when Mrs. Payne Whitney's Derby-winner Twenty Grand ran against George D. Widener...
...Stakes since 1926), was a new record for the Belmont; his total money winnings ($164,075) for Wood Memorial, Derby, Belmont and his two-year-old races made it seem likely that in later races this year-the Arlington Classic, at Arlington, 111.; Travers, at Saratoga-he would pass Gallant Fox's record...
Tall, imposing as a board chairman of the old school, is Basso Witherspoon. His gallant mustachios have greyed in later years, lost something of the grand sweep which might have enabled him in his Wagnerian days at the Metropolitan Opera (1908-17) to sing such hirsute rôles as Wotan and Hunding (Die Walküre) and Hagen (Die Götterdämmerung) with little extra adornment. Buffalo-born, great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Yale graduate (1895), he studied architecture before becoming a famed singer. After leaving the Metropolitan he did Wartime...