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...Lucky Baldwin, James B. Haggin and Leland Stanford-California was second only to Kentucky in the business of breeding horses. Every summer, Breeder Haggin used to ship 300 thoroughbreds to the Saratoga yearling sales. When public indignation against gambling outlawed racing in California, its stud farms went to rack & ruin. With racing's revival in 1935, thoroughbred breeding became more than an industry, it became a mania...
Oldtime turfmen like Poloist Carleton Burke (only Far Westerner ever admitted to the Jockey Club) and Boston-born Charles E. Perkins, who had kept on raising polo ponies and show horses during California's lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches...
...authors of Suzanna wrote a funny play about bundling -The Pursuit of Happiness. In Suzanna they waver uncertainly between pale comments on the folly of socialist hopes in a world which loves to squat on a dime, and rather skittish comedy derived from the idea of a human stud farm...
...Highness The Aga Khan, Bahram had never been defeated. As a three-year-old, he won England's famed "triple crown" (the Epsom Derby, Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger Stakes)-something that only 13 other thoroughbreds had accomplished during 130 years of British horse racing. At stud, Bahram's blood lines were important to British racing. But last month, when the Nazis confiscated the French branch of the Aga Khan's fabulous stable, the Indian potentate, stranded on a Swiss Alp (TIME, Aug. 19), decided to sell his priceless Bahram-for a sum close...
...syndicate of four young men, all under 35: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sylvester Labrot Jr., James Cox Brady Jr. and Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Alfred Vanderbilt is no tyro at either raising or racing thoroughbreds. Six years ago, on his 21st birthday, he inherited his mother's magnificent stud farm and racing stable, invested half a million or more in Pimlico and Belmont Park race tracks, is well on his way to becoming America's No. 1 turfman. Young Labrot, whose ancestors made a fortune in rum, is carrying on where his father left off in 1935-requesting that...