Word: stud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time at the start. King Ranch's hefty brown colt High Gun splashed from behind in mud and fog to win the Sysonby Handicap, so-called "Race of Champions," at Belmont Park. Second by a mud-splattered head: Main Chance Farm's Jet Action. Third: Belair Stud's three-year-old champion, Nashua, running for the first time against older horses. At Atlantic City, Irish-bred Blue Choir, a four-year-old colt, ridden by leading U.S. Jockey Willie Hartack. won the third running of the $104,600 United Nations Handicap. Second: Fox-Catcher Farms' Chevation...
Occasionally, Bill gets away from his desk and out to the track. A determined horseman himself, he has a 1,500 acre stud farm, raised one horse, Nimbus, that won the Derby in 1949. Bill calls the track his "shop window" and puts on a good display. Togged out in a sharply cut lounge suit, silk shirt and floppy Panama, he joins one of the three representatives who handle his book at such big meets as Ascot, Epsom and Goodwood. While other bookies call their odds "ten to one," Bill goes all out: "I'll lay a thousand...
...later years Croker got "an achin' for style." He went to England, saying: "I am out of politics, and now I am going to win the Derby." He bought a stud farm, Glencairn, near Dublin, where he played the role of country squire on and off for the rest of his life; in 1907 his horse, Orby, at 100 to 9, won the Epsom Derby...
Final trick was to stud the tail pipe cylinder with holes made in such a way that the gas streams escaping through them pointed almost directly backward. This device preserved most of the engine's thrust, and also eliminated nearly all of its low-frequency noise...
...Ireland the Wagners inspected the National Stud Farm in County Kildare, dined with U.S. Ambassador William Howard Taft III, lunched with President Sean O'Kelly and admired the Dublin statue of Cú Chulainn. the legendary Irish hero. Paris provided the most unusual welcome, however. As the Wagners arrived at Orly airfield, several young girls pushed through the crowd of officials and shed their coats to welcome the mayor in skimpy red, white and blue bathing suits. "Salut, Monsieur le Maire," they screamed, then rushed to cuddle Wagner for the photographers. Mrs. Wagner quickly sized up the situation, firmly...