Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up: the $70,000 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park, beating Gallant Knight by a neck after sneaking past Maya on the rail for a fine sprint down the stretch. Gallant Fox has now won $275,000-$38,639 less than the record of Zev, greatest U. S. money-winning horse...
...poured-stone structure on the foundations of an old cement kiln. Its sparkling roof, white as sugar icing, is decorated by a frieze of pink and blue imitation candy hearts. Huge cookies (of cork) are set in the giddily striped and curlicued walls. A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret as a weather vane. A gigantic black cat arches his cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose...
...after the thanksgiving King-Emperor George V made Paul's Dean ; Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order The Gloomy One intimated that he does not choose to be called or addressed hereafter as "Sir William"-though he gratefully accepted the knighthood...
...rail and soon these two with Alcibiades between them were running like a three-horse chariot team. Crack Brigade came on behind them. Alcibiades was the first to drop back; that left it up to Tannery, but Tannery could not hold the pace either. Gone Away and Gallant Knight were going strongest now, and the jockies on both of them were using the whip; Sande looked over his shoulder and gave Gallant Fox a cut, and although Gallant Fox was wide on the turn, the others, saving ground inside, did not gain. They still had to run the length...
...racers, member of a family that has raced for centuries, he knew as soon as he saw the field challenge Gallant Fox in the backstretch and get stood off on the turn that it was all over. Chatting and smiling, he watched Gallant Fox come in first. Gallant Knight and Ned O finish second and third respectively, then went out in the rain to present Mr. Woodward with the Derby...