Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, with about 700 yearlings up for auction, turfmen expect some $2,000,000 to change hands. Largest group, as usual, will be those from the famed Claiborne and Ellerslie studs (59 this year), owned by Kentuckian Arthur B. Hancock, biggest commercial breeder in the U. S. Next largest group will be 44 put up by Willis Sharpe Kilmer, another famed breeder who, unlike Hancock, keeps some of his stock for racing under his own silks. A small string, however, that always commands attention are the dozen or so offered each year by the Belair Stud of Collington...
Fighting Fox, a temperamental four-year-old, who breaks a record one day and runs like a plug the next, has earned almost $75,000 of the stable's 1939 winnings. But three-year-old Johnstown, Kentucky Derby winner, has been the sensation of the 1939 racing season. Toasted as another Man o' War when he made all his contemporaries look like hobby horses early in the season, Big John, a homely colt with lop ears, upset the dopesters when he was beaten by William L. Brann's Challedon in the Preakness...
...Belair stallions and broodmares are kept at Arthur Hancock's Paris, Ky. farm (four or five broodmares are kept in Ireland to be bred to Irish and English stallions). Every winter* Breeder Woodward personally selects the parents of the next year's crop of foals (usually about 25). At weaning time (six months), the foals are transferred to Collington. There they remain until they are yearlings...
...Belair Stud, Breeder Woodward also raises Clydesdale draft horses. Once a year he sends the stallions around the countryside to improve the stock of the Maryland farmer. Next to horses, the Master of Belair loves trees?not fancy trees, but big homey maples, oaks, beeches. He is always adding trees to his farm, often personally directs their planting and pruning...
...hookup, Ben Bernie on. A few diehards argued that they had heard something, but officially the result of the experiment was "negative." WOR's Chief Engineer J. R. Poppele, who was in on the 1924 experiment, cheerfully announced that he would try again during Mars's next "favorable opposition" to Earth...