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  The Age 150th   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
White mutters drowsily: "I'm in this.'' Reliable witnesses swear that the doc hears this as ``I'll win this'' and, as White ambles out to be legged up, rushes off to the betting ring to take advantage of his "tip'', which has drifted to 33/1.
White is known for his dry humor, not all of it intentional.
White wouldn't hit Sobar with the whip when he knew the colt was in pain.
150.theage.com.au /view_bestofarticle.asp?intid=7   (1813 words)

  
 THE MELBOURNE CUP-Great Races
The heartwarming smile of connections and the courteous modest manner in victory of jockey Frank Reys on Gala Supreme in 1973 was a poignant moment.
With jockey Harry White on board the 4yo gelding thought bigger than Leilani and ran away with the Cup by a length from the favoured stablemate.
Harry White had stuck with his mate again and two successive cup victories made him a well "booked" jockey.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/8096/cups/greatrac.html   (3733 words)

  
 Whoops! The truth about the punt - Horse Racing - www.theage.com.au
Now, everyone involved in racing knows jockeys are not allowed to bet and it is just as common knowledge that some of them occasionally do have an interest in their own mounts.
White, who was at the function with his wife, Lauris, had a chuckle when Houlahan's words were relayed to him later in the night.
Then again, that feeling can sour very quickly if there is a suggestion a jockey might have some other horse, although there is nothing in the rules to say a trainer cannot back his own horse or any other horse in a particular race.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/05/21/1085120116952.html   (474 words)

  
 Illness won't stop White's charity honour - National - www.theage.com.au
Harry White's 200-hectare Gisborne property is the kind of place jockeys and their mounts must dream of retiring to.
As White wanders across the paddocks with his border collie, Jock, bouncing at his heels, the legendary four-time Melbourne Cup-winning jockey seems a happy man; tanned, perky and contented.
Two of White's Melbourne Cup-winning mounts, Hyperno and Think Big, lived out their days with him and are buried on the property.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/10/18/1066364541073.html   (514 words)

  
 Racing and Sports Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
For 35 years Harry White was a champion rider in Melbourne until his retirement.
Harry took out his fourth VRC St Leger when Full At Last (8-1) defeated Sound Gold (15-1) and Might (11-4) in the 2800 metres event.
And no doubt Harry White, looking for his fifth Cup win to break the 'deadlock' with Bobby Lewis in the 'two-miler' will be thinking hard and long about riding the St Leger winner in the big race.
www.aapracingandsports.com.au /newsletter.asp?i=32a&f=ml   (591 words)

  
 Waterways were objects of Congressional ridicule - PittsburghLIVE.com
The unknown, unmentionable and unpronounceable river was derided with laughter by members of Congress, despite the efforts of Congressman Harry White, of Indiana County, to describe its importance as a tributary of the Allegheny River.
White said it deserved study and had been navigable for smaller steamboats, as the House continued to break up with laughter.
The disc jockey who coined the term "rock 'n' roll" in the early 1950s was born (in 1921) and raised in Windber, in northern Somerset County.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_160214.html   (2062 words)

  
 Major League Baseball : Events : 2004 Hall of Fame Inductions: Frick Award
Was an analyst with the White Sox for 12 seasons, teaming with Ken Harrelson for 10 of the years...
Was traded to the Cubs with pitchers Ken Frailing and Jim Kremmel and catcher Steve Swisher from the White Sox in December 1973 for third baseman Ron Santo.
Broadcaster for Chicago White Sox from 1982-87, then rejoined Dodgers in 1988, teaming with Vin Scully for six years until his sudden death during 1993 season...
www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/events/hof/y2004/frick_bios.jsp   (17266 words)

  
 To calm the heartbeat, just think like Handbrake - smh.com.au
Harry White's shadow moves faster than he does.
Watching Harry in my early days was a lesson in how to handle pressure and the associated stress.
Harry was laid-back to the point of making everyone around him feel at ease.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/22/1029114166155.html   (959 words)

  
 JockeySite.com
About 4,000 persons were present in this first edition with 17 horses and before of the race, Twilight fell to his jockey and gave a complete round to the track, while two horses, Dispatch and Medora, suffered a tragic fall and died in the racecourse.
In the next year, Archer repeated the victory with J.Cutts on the saddle, and again there were rumors that he had made the trip walking from Nowra, though many persons thought that he travelled in a ship in an anonymous way.
In 1867, there was a curious case in the dispute of the race, in which ran two horses with the same name, both were called Tim Whiffler.
www.jockeysite.com /stories/melbournecup.htm   (953 words)

  
 The Democratic Party
White House that according to federal policy, until this investigation is over EVERYTHING is supposed to be suspended for Karl Rove and that includes clearances.
The White House turned the e-mail over to prosecutors, and Rove told a grand jury about it last year during testimony in which he also acknowledged discussing Plame's covert work for the CIA with Cooper and syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
White House officials contended that he had wrongly indicated that he was sent on his mission by Cheney.
www.democrats.org /a/2005/07/republicans_spe.php   (18186 words)

  
 The House of Style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Painted yellow with white trim and green shutters, the Old Clubhouse stood for 96 years as a sentinel at the foot of the homestretch.
For members of the Maryland Jockey Club there was no need for a dress code.
A replica of the destroyed building’s cupola sits in the infield, complete with horse and jockey weather vane, the only surviving remnant of the original building.
www.gamblerspalace.com /PREAKNESGP/house_of_style.htm   (559 words)

  
 Truman Library - Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 23, 1967
A draft of this transcript was edited by the interviewee but only minor emendations were made; therefore, the reader should remember that this is essentially a transcript of the spoken, rather than the written word.
And that's why I think that Harry Truman was an outstanding President, and that Lyndon Johnson is an outstanding President, and that both men may go down in history as great Presidents, but it's too soon to make a judgment of that sort.
I took this down to the White House on January 5th when I spent an hour with John Roche who is a special consultant to the President and who works on Vietnam among other things.
www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/sping4.htm   (15928 words)

  
 KTFMC.org - Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers' Club
Past farm managers of the year Jim Brady, Henry White, Harry Schmidt, Neil Howard, Garrett O'Rourke and current farm manager of the year Tom Evans were recognized.
He explained that discussion with owners, farm managers and the Jockey Club suggest that mature July yearlings were not there this year.
The panel suggested that yearlings would have to pass a higher standard physically and would be placed alphabetically as in the past.
www.ktfmc.org /meetingminutes/index.cfm?date=022003   (641 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on L.A. Confidential at Epinions.com
Bud White (Crowe) is a detective known for getting results, quite a few years before Dirty Harry.
White is a brutal, dumb cop who wises up by the third reel.
White realizes there is a conspiracy behind the Night Owl shootings and is eager to get to the bottom of it.
www.epinions.com /mvie-review-7E1C-31E16C7F-3A58DB9D-prod2   (827 words)

  
 Print Article: Goodwood struggles but Fame a crowd-pleaser
Still, it was a paltry crowd, considering South Australia, with a wonderful racing tradition, is the home of Oakbank, which can attract 40,000 on a Saturday.
One local reckoned the South Australian Jockey Club would have been lucky to get more than 2000 for the Goodwood day.
Take away the visitors, and Adelaide was hardly out in numbers to support the occasion, yet they flocked to the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame dinner, which attracted 1200 last Thursday night, when the latest inductees were honoured.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/05/18/1053196475324.html   (823 words)

  
 AAPRacingandSports.com.au Special Feature - Adelaide Cup Carnival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Before an 1100-strong audience at the Adelaide Convention Centre, five horses, three jockeys, three trainers and two associates received the sport's greatest honour.
Four-time Melbourne Cup winner Harry White, eleven-time Melbourne Jockey Premiership winner Bill Duncan and international success Bill Williamson were recognised for their outstanding performance in the jockey category.
Former racecaller Bert Bryant, renowned for twenty-eight Melbourne Cup calls and his epic call of the two horse war between Big Philou and Rain Lover in the 1970 Queen Elizabeth Stakes, was one of two associate members to be inducted.
www.aapracingandsports.com.au /features.asp?f=sajc03-2003Inductees   (553 words)

  
 The Australian Bloodhorse Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
IN FRONT of a large crowd at the Adelaide Convention Centre last week, 13 new inductees (five horses, three jockeys, three trainers and two associates) were placed in the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame.
The jockeys were Billy Duncan (won Victoria premiership 11 times in the 1920's-30's), Bill Williamson (won Victoria premiership six times in the 1950's) and Harry White (four times Champion Victorian Jockey and rode four Melbourne Cup winners).
The three trainers to achieve Hall Of Fame status were Walter Hickenbotham, Frank McGrath Snr and Lee Freedman who includes among his successes four consecutive Golden Slipper winners and the Melbourne 'Triple Crown' with different horses - Mannerism (Caulfield Cup), Super Impose (Cox Plate) and Subzero (Melbourne Cup) in 1992.
www.bloodhorsereview.com.au /news_story.asp?id=336   (148 words)

  
 Champions - Australian Racing Museum and Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bobby Lewis was born in Victoria in 1878 and rode successfully for more than 40 years.
His partnership with the master trainer James Scobie proved a formidable combination and his big-race record is remarkable with no jockey winning more VRC Derbies (eight), VRC Oaks (seven) or SAJC St Legers (eight) than he did.
In addition, Bobby Lewis and Harry White are the only jockeys to have won four Melbourne Cups (The Victory, Patrobas, Artilleryman and Trivalve).
www.racinghalloffame.com.au /hof/inductees/blewis.htm   (100 words)

  
 The Race That Stops A Nation quiz
The first jockey to win four Melbourne Cups was Bobby Lewis, who rode his 4th winner in 1927.
Who was the next jockey to ride four Melbourne Cup winners?
When Makai ran second for the second consecutive year, it was the _______ occasion a horse had come second twice, in consecutive years?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=98344&origin=   (357 words)

  
 Truman Library - Charles P. Kindleberger Oral History Interview
At the end of the summer I told Harry White I was leaving to go to the Federal Reserve Bank where I had this job arranged.
I saw Harry White and saw something of his unpleasantness when he forced the British to sell American Viscose, if you recall that episode.
Not that it was a direct association, but having worked with Harry White for three months I show up nine years later as working on Germany.
www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/kindbrgr.htm   (16932 words)

  
 ipedia.com: 2003 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bush's landing was criticized by opponents as overly theatrical and expensive.
The banner, made by White House personnel (according to a CNN story: [1]) and placed there by the U.S. Navy, was criticized as premature.
He is replaced by Lewis Platt as non-executive chairman and Harry Stonecipher as president and CEO.
www.ipedia.com /2003.html   (3645 words)

  
 Names beginning with H
Harris, Reverend Alfred, white, male, 76, married, England (Wales), minister of the gospel, 1896/08/07, West Chester, cong.
Harry, Cressingen, white, male, 44, married, Collegeville, molder, 1906/12/02, Spring City, heart disease,, 2, 113
Hibberd, Preston, white, male, 78, married, Willistown,, 1906/12/01,,,, 2, 114
courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his480/deaths/rod-h.htm   (19748 words)

  
 Crikey Website - Worst ever radio and TV questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A cadet on the now defunct Adelaide News was sent out to interview the visiting Melbourne jockey Harry White.
She duly did - Harry just laughed it off, saying the media come up with lots of funny names....
In the early 80s Joe Cocker was interviewed by various reporters on a comeback tour after drug and alcohol-induced health problems.
www.crikey.com.au /articles/2004/02/19-0003.html   (726 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
If FDR had responded forcefully when he was first told that Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy and that there were dozens of Soviet spies back in his administration -- that was back in 1939 -- all of America wouldn't lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation for the next 50 years.
COULTER: Oh, no, no, no, though some of them were traitors, like I say, the Rosenberg's, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White who was promoted by President Truman after President Truman was warned that Harry Dexter white was a Soviet spy.
It was so shocking that when President Eisenhower came into office he directed his attorney general to go on national TV and state that President Truman promoted -- wittingly promoted a Soviet spy.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0308/16/lkl.00.html   (6805 words)

  
 » Blogosphere | Berlind's Midnight Oil | ZDNet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Not only wouldn't Harry have to discover the six degrees of separation needed to meet Sally (any link crawler could do that for Harry) and not only wouldn't we need all those services to keep track of the relationships, we'd have much more information about the nature of the relationships.
Theoretically, not only can Harry indicate that he has a crush on Sally, but he can see, based on who else has made the same indication, who he must "elimidate" in order to win Sally's exclusive affections.
Along with ex-MTV video jockey Adam Curry, he been pushing the bleeding edge of RSS with support for enclosures and the time-shifted production and consumption of free Internet audio (a practice known as podcasting).
blogs.zdnet.com /Berlind/index.php?cat=7   (3690 words)

  
 Texas Governor Rick Perry - Texas Music Pioneers (A-M) / Texas Music History Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Richardson was a disc jockey, songwriter, and singer.
The choir has also performed at the White House six times since 1989.The Texas Girls' Choir has always accepted all girls with an adequate voice and an overall B average in school without regard to race, creed, or religious origin.
Durst was the first African-American disc jockey in Texas and one of the first in the country.
www.governor.state.tx.us /divisions/music/tour/pioneers.htm   (9596 words)

  
 TR to G.O. Trevelyan, 10/1/11'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
...When I went to Vienna, I met Harry White, an old friend and the best man in our diplomatic service, who had, most unfortunately and improperly, and for reasons of unspeakable triviality, been turned out of the service by President Taft.
The Hengelm¸llers, the Austrian representatives in Washington, had crossed the ocean to meet me, and I was so flooded with attractive invitations, public and private, both in Vienna and Budapest, that I hardly had one moment to myself.
I was told that Viennese society was frivolous, but it happened, I suppose naturally, that those men whom I saw were most of them interested in real problems of statecraft and warcraft.
chnm.gmu.edu /history/faculty/kelly/archive/tr/tr10111.htm   (2296 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Australia & New Zealand
Mamool, ridden by two-time U.K. champion jockey Frankie Dettori, was seventh and Razkalla ninth.
Makybe Diva, whose name derives from the first two letters of the women who work in owner Tony Santic's office, was Freedman's fourth Melbourne Cup winner.
Boss became the first jockey to win back- to-back Cups since Harry White in 1979.
www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=a29x2aUYMIys&refer=australia   (528 words)

  
 Who Knows?      Cowboy Poetry at the BAR-D Ranch   www.CowboyPoetry.com
Back in the 80's when I was a jockey, I occasionally rode to the races with an old cowboy name Larry Daniels.
We learned that Harry Noyes Pratt (1879-1944) was a poet and editor who ran the Claremont Hotel's art gallery in Berkeley, California.
Harry is lookin' for information about Harriet Kritser, who did the block artwork on an illustration of Badger Clark's "A Cowboy's Prayer." She is said to have made the linoleum block print while at the Y Ranch in Texas.
www.cowboypoetry.com /whoknows.htm   (8826 words)

  
 American BigBands - Page 4 "S" Bands
Although this appears to be a club date, it is quite probable that this is also "His Victor Recording Orchestra".
At that time, the members of the band were (?) Myers, Ernie Winburn, Andre McDowell, Harry White, Clyde Davis, Pedro Noriega, Jerry Farrar, Cappie Crouse, George Marks, Coosy Grantham, Jules Mendelsohn, Red Roundtree, Olin Gibson, and the leader, Blue Steele.
Stratakos was a trombonist who was active in the early "White" New Orleans Jazz bands.
nfo.net /usa/s4.html   (3009 words)

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