turfman
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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
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
Francis R. Hitchcock, 67, famed international turfman, steward of the Jockey Club, uncle of polo player Thomas Hitchcock; on board the White Star liner Olympic, en route to France to see his horses race.
From Time Magazine Archive
Readers of the sports page knew the Aga Khan as an ardent turfman whose stables had produced five Derby winners.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is a turfman, with carefully brushed side-whiskers dyed coal-black, and hawk-like eyes.
From Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 by Pierce, Ruth
This year, with about 700 yearlings up for auction, turfmen expect some $2,000,000 to change hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
U. S. turfmen expected that because of Phar Lap's prestige this method of training might gain popularity; that because of his death, owners of notable racehorses might be reluctant to risk sending them abroad.
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
It was an absolute necessity for the early turfmen of France to import the Anglo-Saxon man with the Anglo-Arabian horse if they would bring to a creditable conclusion the programme of 1833.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various
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