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...brief ceremony beforehand ("Ted wanted it this way," said master of ceremonies Curt Gowdy), Williams restlessly toed the turf before him, and gased out to the left field stands while Boston dignitaries praised...
When the Queensland Turf Club Committee invited Dean Baddeley to the races, he obtained permission from Brisbane's Archbishop Reginald Halse, turned up at the track in a felt hat, suede shoes and a striped suit, puffing a cigar, and proceeded to clean up. The ungloomy dean won six 55? bets in eight races for a total profit...
...Though France is represented by some of its most illustrious names, the fact remains that for such artists as Daumier, Degas and Manet, art always came in first, and horses only showed. But in England, from Charles II to Elizabeth II, the sovereign has been a patron of the turf (two of the exhibition's paintings came from the Royal Collection), and the commissioning of portraits was once almost as much a part of a horseman's way of life as racing or breeding or hunting. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the golden age of such...
They (with their New Zealand neighbors) bloodily proved their loyalty at Gallipoli. But their suspicion of authority was frequently uninhibited: in 1896, John Norton, editor of the Sydney Truth, toasted Queen Victoria's good health and long life, "if only to keep her rascal of a turf-swindling, cardsharping, wife-debauching, boozing, rowdy of a son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, off the throne...
...addition of another, simultaneous football season at Soldiers Field would result in irreparable wear and tear on the playing turf. Even if the professional team reimbursed the HAA for the damage, no amount of money can recondition a field after two football games within 48 hours, in time for the next game a week away...