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Marshal Saxe: "It is impossible not to admire (although he once set out to invade England) that high-spirited batard de Roi, Marshal Saxe. ... To wrap it up pleasantly, in the quaint language of the turf, he would have started 100 to 1, and no takers, for the Continence Gold Cup. . . . His father (Augustus the Strong) was well called the Strong: he had 353 illegitimate children...
...held, has by its indoor showing more than justified the confidence expressed by partisans of the Blue. The Orange and Black, which pulled a surprise in 1924 by carrying the trophy back to New Jersey, is building a now team and the Harvard quartet is always stronger on turf than on tanbark. Winners last year, the Crimson poloists will return to the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club this month favored to furnish heavy opposition. A bye has been drawn by the Cambridge outfit in the first round, leaving Princeton as its most likely opponent before the final round...
...head starter at Churchill Down was talking to a glistening, shifting wall of thoroughbreds, which nudged and minced and hesitated at one end of a green lane of Kentucky turf under a gold-and-blue sky. With one word more he would send them away, down the green lane, around a white-fenced circle for a mile and a quarter. The 75,000 turbulent shadows packed along the stretch would roar for two minutes, and one more Kentucky Derby would be over. Two minutes and a few seconds - two minutes for which the jockeys had trained for months, for which...
...brown bees of Ireland are never forgotten, in their clean skips by golden-thatched cottages. And blue turf smoke is there, and all the birds of Ireland...
Bets can of course be made on any subject, but in England the commonest form of betting is associated with the turf. Accordingly, the proposed 5% tax on betting of all sorts included in the new Churchill budget (TIME, May 3) roused the ire of Britons last week, chiefly because it will tend to raise the price of England's most popular pasteboard commodity: a betting ticket on the Derby, Grand National or other "turf classic." Within the House of Commons, notables waxed wrathful at daring, chubby "Winnie" Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer...