Word: percheron
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...Gregory Rice, a pony-sized runner with a Percheron kick, is the fastest distance racer ever developed in the U.S. Despite a triple hernia that has kept him out of the services, he has won 57 consecutive races (the great Paavo Nurmi won only 50), has whittled down the indoor records for two and three miles to 8:51.1 and 13:45.7 respectively. Last week, in his first race since pulling a tendon in his heel three months ago, Rice beat his nearest rival over two miles by 55 yards. But his time was not unusual...
...That's a horse of a different color," he replied. "I pick up quite a bit of inside dope in my line, and I predict a photo finish. So long. I've got to go see a man about the north end of a south bound Percheron." Hu Flung Huey's Big Four Roosevelt over Willkie Saltonstall over Dever Harvard over Yale Babson over my dead body
...year-old girl built like a young Percheron (175 lbs.), so strong that your father, the county jailer, calls you his "handyman" and says you can handle the women prisoners "like sacks of potatoes," you are not likely to have many beaus. Such was the case of Lulu Belle Kimel of Lexington, N. C. Though she was bursting with health and warm-hearted to a degree, the boys did not consider her the village belle. James Godwin, 19, a tough and knowing High Point boy whom they brought to the jail two months ago for beating up and robbing...
Last week at Manhattan's Walker Galleries six new paintings and half-a-dozen drawings by Curry encouraged head-shaking by detractors. The healthy springiness and sweep of the artist's well-known Kansas pictures appeared only in an oil-and-tempera panel of a prancing, black Percheron stallion painted at the Wisconsin stock show a year ago. A landscape View of Madison painted last spring had an unaccustomed air of old-fashioned dewiness. A still life, Spring Flowers, had an even stranger touch of Renoir. For action subjects the artist had apparently confined himself to football games...
...Long considered unapproachable by contemporary trainers, these records were last week broken to bits by a 32-year-old Brooklyn pigeon fancier named Hirsch Jacobs.* At Yonkers, N. Y. last week Trainer Jacobs, who a dozen years ago did not know the difference between a pony and a Percheron, saddled his 150th winner of the current season. With ten weeks of racing left, his total should reach 175 before the year is over. This will be the fourth consecutive year that Trainer Jacobs has saddled more than 100 winners. Unlike that of Cowboy Irwin, his record was compiled...