turfman
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turfmen
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So songs like “The Turfman from Ardee,” about coming across an old and tired turfman who doesn’t want to go on, come alive and feel relevant.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
Samuel Clay Hildreth, 63, famed oldtime turfman; in Manhattan; after an operation to correct intestinal disorders.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Lambton, 73, 3d Earl of Durham, famed English turfman, landlord & coal tycoon; after a long illness; in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides admiring that friend of small nations, Woodrow Wilson, to whom Admiral Grayson was personal physician,* King Husein is well aware that Admiral Grayson is as eminent a turfman as he is a sailor.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a month, dating from the memorable meeting with the turfman, before Garrison was able to leave the hospital.
From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson
Recalling that horse racing boomed during World War I, U.S. turfmen last week wondered what to expect in 1942, watched with fingers crossed the opening week at Miami's Tropical Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
Owned by Lee Rosenberg, a Manhattan cotton broker little known to turfmen, Kerry Patch is not particularly well-bred, had been conspicuously unsuccessful this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
To U. S. turfmen, the arrival of Bahram was big news.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Lexington, turfmen deserted conservative churches they had attended all their lives, went to the beautiful new $225,000 edifice.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is little difference in their speed either—a second, two seconds, or mayhap three—but these seconds are, in their results, so vastly different to the turfmen that all other contrarieties become as nothing.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
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