Word: kenya
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...doubt contented himself with the bookies, whose odds of 9 to 2 were "not too dusty". The Calcutta Sweepstake (lottery on the Derby), most famed British sweepstake, amounted to about ?70,000 for the first prize and was won by one Captain Burman, a real estate agent at Kenya Colony. The Derby (a race of about 1½ miles) was instituted by the twelfth Earl of Derby in 1780 and has been run regularly ever since, at first on the last Thursday in May or the first Thursday in June, but since 1838 on Wednesdays. The stakes were first fixed...