Word: stud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Equipoise was supposed to be retired to stud after his race last month at Havre de Grace, Sportsman Whitney welcomed the challenge. He stipulated, however, that Winooka should first prove himself "against one or more of our first-class Eastern horses . . in order to show the public his real quality." Manager Naylor was incensed at what he took as a "direct insult to Australian racing." but agreed to enter Winooka at Laurel last week. Meanwhile he continued negotiations over weights and distances for the prospective match with Equipoise. Mr. Whitney consented to race at seven furlongs (seven-eighths...
...racehorse Osculator: the $10,000 Havre de Grace handicap at 20-to-1, by a length, from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny'') Whitney's famed Equipoise; before a record crowd of 25,000 come to see Equipoise run his farewell race before being retired to stud. Equipoise's total winnings, $322,970, make him fourth biggest moneymaker in turf history...
...department:--"Hunecker and Mencken did more than any other two men of the century to thin the ranks of the literary stud horses from Vassar and the fillies from Harvard...
...landed him in the patent leather pumps of one of Manhattan's 400; with a $600,000 string of pearls for his wife (the second Mrs. Cosden by that time), with a million-dollar estate on Long Island, a two-million dollar home at Palm Beach, a stud farm in Virginia. It was at the Cosden home, "The Cedars," at Port Washington, L. I., that on the morning of Sept. 10, 1924, after the master and his guests had returned from an entertainment for the Prince of Wales, a thief slipped into the Cosden's bedroom and took...
Middleton Park, Ireland-his stud farm...