Word: stud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golden chestnut colt familiarly known as "Big Red," won all but one of the 21 races he started, established five U. S. track records and was said to be the greatest horse in the history of U. S. racing when he was retired to the stud of his owner, Samuel 13. Riddle, in 1921. In the 14 years since his first foals became of racing age (1924), Big Red's progeny have won more money than the sons & daughters of any other sire† now living ($2,426,446) and he has become the most famed stallion standing...
...bred nursery in the world is Walnut Hall Farm, near Lexington, Ky., owned by Dr. & Mrs. Ogden M. Edwards Jr. (nee Lela Harkness, Standard Oil heiress). For the past 23 years, Walnut Hall has averaged 100 foals a year, has bred more trotting champions than any other U. S. stud. This year Walnut Hall sold 95 yearlings at the Old I Glory Sale, more than any other nursery, grossing $113,985, an average of approximately $1,200 per horse. Walnut Hall also received the highest bid price-$6,800 from Brooklyn Sportsman William Strang Jr. for the yearling Princess Margaret...
When Equipoise in the spring of 1935, after making an unsuccessful attempt to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, was retired to stud $38,000 short of Sun Beau's record winnings of $376,744, Sonny Whitney began to think of selling. Last year 24 of his yearlings were sold at Saratoga. Few weeks ago Sonny Whitney's Old Westbury polo team won the U. S. Open Championship from Jock Whitney's Greentree team (TIME, Oct. 4), and Sonny Whitney's two entries finished fifth and seventh in the Futurity. After that it was certain...
Flautist Johnson believes that amateur music is the moral equivalent of athletics, as much good fun as bowling or stud poker. Save for a chapter on "The Art of Coming In." in which he details the feelings of a flautist resting for 74 measures of a Haydn symphony in the knowledge that he must enter on the first beat of the 75th, Author Johnson gives little practical advice in his lean volume. He suggests that none but home-players thoroughly enjoy concert performances such as one he heard of Mozart's Erne Kleine Nachtmusik (whence his book...
...barn at Lexington, Ky., 90 miles from where his colt last week won the Derby, Man o' War two months ago celebrated his aoth birthday. Still at stud, he has thus far sired 124 colts, 132 fillies of racing age, who have won $2,200,000 in prize money...