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Word: handlers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Elijah Johnson, Negro handler, was caught plugging a piece of sponge into the nostril of Racehorse Sun Mission to shorten his wind, insure his losing. Sun Mission finished third. Elijah Johnson's sentence: 90 days in gaol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Horse Fixer | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...Grace, drowsing in her kennel at Hayneville, Ala., last week might have been dreaming with a dog's sharp reminiscence of the end of that three hour run; she might have been wondering whether the time had not come for her handler to bring her a platter of lean, raw meat; or she might have guessed, from the smell of the pine crate that was almost overpowering in her infinitely acute nostrils, that she was soon to make another trip to Grand Junction where, on March 5, she must defend her title in the National Championship Bird Dog Trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Old Hancock Place | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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