A fan of thoroughbred horse racing, Verne Winchell bred more than sixty stakes winners and raced more than forty.

A fan of thoroughbred horse racing, and an occasional racehorse owner, Conway is a co-founder and vice-president, of the Board of Directors of the Don MacBeth Memorial Jockey Fund.

Mayer Rothschild was a keen horseback rider and hunter in spite of his sixteen stone frame and was a fan of thoroughbred horse racing.

A fan of thoroughbred horse racing, his colt " Sir Bevys " won the 1879 Epsom Derby.

A fan of Thoroughbred horse racing, Robertson paid $ 520, 000 for a colt he named Mr. Pat.

As a horse racing fan, Bradley spent much of his leisure time at racetracks in California and often presented the winners trophies.

Dwight Eisenhower lined up with his parents at the 1904 Kansas State Fair to see him, and Harry Truman recalled that as a boy he had written a fan letter to the horse.

In Tatterhood, Tatterhood is transformed by her asking her bridegroom why he didn't ask her why she rode a goat, why she carried a spoon, and why she was so ugly, and when he asked her, denying it and therefore transforming her goat into a horse, her spoon into a fan, and herself into a beauty.

Liebling was also an avid fan of boxing, horse racing and food, and frequently wrote about these subjects.

She was arrested four times in a single day during the fair due to perceived indecent exposure after a fan dance performance and while riding a white horse down the streets of Chicago, where the nudity was only an illusion, and again after being bodypainted by Max Factor, Sr. with his new make-up formulated for Hollywood films.

" The items illustrated on their website ( all with maritime associations ) include metal curtain ties, a " lacquered papier-maché tray ", tapestries, small boxes for tobacco, snuff, cosmetics and other purposes, cut-paper pictures ( découpage ), small silver items, miniature paintings, a " Gilt-brass clock finial ", ceramic plaques, statuettes, cigarette boxes, plaquettes, a painted tray, a horse brass, a metal " pipe tamper ", a small glass painting, a fan, a handle plate from furniture, and various other items.

The horse was often referred to simply as " Himself ", and the story goes that he received items of fan mail addressed to ' Himself, Ireland '.

He rode his horse into the sea and shot the fan cleanly through.

A lover of horses and a fan of Thoroughbred horse racing, Cooke owned Kent Farms, a estate in Middleburg, Virginia, not far from Washington, D. C.

Like her father, Princess Zahra is a fan of Thoroughbred horse racing and has begun racing horses in her own name, the owner-breeder of the Prix Vermeille winner Mandesha.

Wright worked with Tex Ritter, providing him with musical accompaniment at the ' Texas Western Spectacle ' at the Haringey Arena in 1952 ; in addition to playing a Sheriff in one scene ( which Denny loved, always having been a great fan of Westerns ), he had to ride around an arena with Tex and the band whilst playing his guitar ; on one fateful night, he discovered that the cinch on his saddle had not been properly tightened — he began to list and by the time he left the arena he was almost horizontal — but still on the horse and still playing!

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A fan of Thoroughbred horse racing, he owned a highly successful stable of horses that won numerous prestigious races in the United Kingdom.

He was also a fan of Thoroughbred horse racing, a regular at Del Mar Racetrack and the races at Santa Anita.

Kenshin's standard: open fan horse insignia

One must dress at every shrine a holy tent made of fan palm fibres and dyed with henna, the other one arrives in procession with a muqaddim ( religious leader ) riding a white horse.

Its drivers are Tom Chilton, Andy Neate and Tom Onslow-Cole with Chilton's father Grahame being Aon's vice-chairman, who is a " huge fan " of motor racing.

An avid racing fan, he often enjoyed participating in or watching area speedway races, with other authors tagging along.

This was actually a racehorse, which the racing fan Wallinger had bought and named " A Real Work Of Art " with a view to entering it in races and therefore causing this " art " to be piped into bookmakers up and down the country.

The lavish rock star-like treatment given to Romero in his attempt to build a designer-centred game studio ( including a multi-million dollar office on the top floor of a Dallas skyscraper ), Romero's well-publicized expensive tastes and hobbies ( such as racing Ferraris ), the dubious saga of Romero's girlfriend, professional gamer Stevie " Killcreek " Case, being hired on as a level designer, and the game's development ( which included most of the original development team quitting en masse to form a competing company called Gathering of Developers ), incited criticism from the online gaming fan community.

Using the Chinese he learned while in Tibet, Tennessee tries to reason with Wu, and learns that he is a huge racing fan who knows all about Jim and Herbie's exploits.

Herbie's trademark " 53 " racing number was chosen by producer Bill Walsh, who was a fan of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player Don Drysdale ( Drysdale's jersey number, later retired by the team, was 53 ).

Erving, a racing fan himself, stated that his foray into NASCAR was an attempt to raise interest in NASCAR among African-Americans.

He was a great fan of BriSCA Formula One stock car racing at the former Long Eaton track and made a record called " Stock Car Racing is Magic!

A lifelong fan of automobile racing in general and the " 500 " in particular, Hulman listened with great interest to what Shaw had to say.

As a consequence of that project he became a big fan of Formula One motor racing.

The research indicated that in order to attract more than the approximately 50, 000 hardcore racing fans in Southern California it would be necessary to convince the non-racing fan of the new speedway ’ s safety to overcome their fears of seeing a terrible accident ; to position the facility as a clean, safe, fun place to take the family, and a place to rub elbows with Hollywood stars, astronauts and other celebrities.

The crowd had become a great fan of Kelly and he certainly gave them a demonstration of high speed racing that day.

This coordination allows the drivers to enter many different racetracks, increasing their chances of winning ; allows the racetrack to field as many cars as possible ; lets the racing associations develop a series of race events ; and promotes fan interest.

In his lyrics, the character is portrayed as an Indian taxi driver, mystic, sitar player, chef, snake charmer and avid fan of elephant racing.

In 1969 Sting read the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and became a passionate fan.

Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.

Being single action weapons, they needed to be cocked for each shot, so the rate of fire was also low, and while a shooter could fan his gun, this expended all his shots even faster and made him even more inaccurate than normal.

Modell's team was named the " Baltimore Ravens " after a fan contest and began play in the 1996 season.

A fan contest, drawing 33, 288 voters, was then held to determine the team's name.

Likely the most extreme criticism of the practice was given by Sun sports columnist John Steadman suggested that Baltimore forfeit any game where a fan shouts " O!

His voice became a fixture of both Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards, and his expression " Give that fan a contract ", uttered whenever a fan caught a foul ball, was one of his trademarks – the other being his distinct " Thank Yooooou ..." following every announcement ( He was also known on occasion to say " Give that fan an error " after a dropped foul ball ).

He was recording an album with fan Merle Haggard in 1973 when a stroke left him comatose until his death in 1975.

She remembers that her father was such a fan of Bessie Smith, " he once rode 50 miles on horseback just to see her perform live.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

After that, he watched reruns of The Third Man, and he was a Jonathan Harris fan, growing up ( when he was actually a fan of Guy Williams's, Zorro, who played his future TV father – John Robinson ).

This was followed by a fan letter from H. P. Lovecraft, which was the beginning of 15 years of friendship and correspondence.

Mare was signed to replace fan favorite John Kasay, the last original Panther from the inaugural 1995 squad who was cut with two years left on his contract.