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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
  HB Family 15
In addition to Zoedone, her daughters included Zoedone's sister, Blue Ribbon, who at age four won the West of Scotland Grand National, and was third in the Scottish Grand National and Eglinton Hunt cup, and at age five won Lady Eglinton's Cup; she bred on through her daughter, Heather, a steeplechase winner.
Zoedone proved to be a sturdy, careful jumper, with plenty of stamina, placing third, to Seaman and Cyrus, the only three of the twelve horses that started to finish the race, in extremely bad going in rain and snow.
Zoedone's sire, the half-bred New Owestry, won races on the flat and over fences, and was a noted sire of steeplechasers and hunters in Shropshire and surrounding counties; he was by Knight of Kars (1855, a son of Pocahontas), who also got the dual-Grand National winner The Colonel (1869-1870).
www.tbheritage.com /HistoricDams/HBMares/HB15.html   (881 words)

  
 Karel Kinsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was firstly made Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Britain, and secondly while in England riding his own horse Zoedone won the 1883 Grand National.
He was distraught when Zoedone was poisoned on the race day two years later.
Kinsky was involved in an affair with Jennie Jerome, wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and American born mother of Sir Winston Churchill.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karel_Kinsky   (569 words)

  
 Zoedone
The horse zoedone can't be found in the database.
Add zoedone to the database by simply entering sire/dam information.
One of the most useful new features is the ability to right click on horse names inside the pedigree to get quick access to information for that horse.
www.allbreedpedigree.com /zoedone   (370 words)

  
 Old Wyggestonian Association College History - Spelling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"We were expected to study and memorise these words in our own spare time." The book contains words that still puzzle boys like 'disappoint', 'committee' and 'separate', but in 1903 pupils were expected to learn 'caoutchoue', 'chignon' 'erysipelas', 'khedive', and 'zoedone'.
The editor can't even find 'zoedone' in the 10 volume dictionary compiled by Sir James Murray.
In case one might think these difficult words were ignored and effort concentrated on the more common ones Mr.
www.wqeic.ac.uk /oldwyggs/h_full.asp?ID=10   (180 words)

  
 Country Life : Pursuits: What's On   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She says: 'Traditionally, the breed has strong links with the UK — in 1776 Count Kinsky, charged by the Czech royal family with developing horse breeding to provide the cavalry with high quality mounts, travelled to Britain to buy Thoroughbreds which were used to improve the bloodlines.'
The breed has triumphed in the Pardubice steeplechase, established by legendary horseman Oktavian Kinsky and, in 1883, Count Karel Kinsky won the Grand National on the Kinsky mare Zoedone.
The breed suffered turbulent times in the 20th century under the regime of the USSR, although the Kinsky family kept the bloodlines going, but since the fall of the Iron Curtain it has regained its place as a symbol of the nation.
www.countrylife.co.uk /lifecountry/pursuits/handhnews6.php   (267 words)

  
 Grand National History 1889 - 1880
The number of starters wouldn't have bothered "Zoedone" and jockey Count Charles Kinsky who had finished third a year before when only three horses completed the race.
The horse was felt to be past it's best after being plagued by sickness from a young age, he shook the injuries off over time though and managed to hold off "Cyrus" and "Zoedone" the only other horses to complete the course to win the National.
The race this year was on the 24th of March and had a field of only 12 starters after very heavy snow.
the-grand-national.co.uk /history/1880   (1069 words)

  
 Zoedone - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
This family was included in the Family Table of Racehorses because Zoedone and St.
Maid of All Work (f Rochester) Miss Osborne (f Osbaldeston) Miss Honiton (b f 1869 Honiton) ZOEDONE (ch f 1877 New Oswestry) Grand National Steeple Chase St.Galmier (b c 1882 New Oswestry)
A Tangled Tale - Answers to Knot VII.
au.encarta.msn.com /Zoedone.html   (121 words)

  
 The Observer | Sport | Grand National: Red Marauder wins race
However, Jockey Club spokesman John Maxse admitted: 'It was fairly shocking, uncomfortable viewing.' Horses that are effective over two and a half miles and jump indifferently are not expected to win the Grand National.
Red Marauder defied the rules, winning in a time of almost 11 minutes, the slowest since Zoedone triumphed for his owner-rider Count Charles Kinsky in 1883.
Then the fences were as upright as judges, and as unforgiving, so Red Marauder was relatively the slower.
observer.guardian.co.uk /sport/story/0,,470267,00.html   (1010 words)

  
 Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll
You will thus generally secure a logical victory: a practical victory is not to be hoped for, since she can always fall back upon the crushing remark, "That has nothing to do with it!"- a move for which Man has not yet discovered any satisfactory answer.
Now let us return to BALBUS.) Here is my "particular negative", on which to test his rule: Suppose the two recorded luncheons to have been "2 buns, one queen-cake, 2 sausage-rolls, and a bottle of Zoedone: total, one-and-ninepence", and "one bun, 2 queen-cakes, a sausage-roll, and a bottle of Zoedone: total, one-and-fourpence".
And suppose Clara's unknown luncheon to have been "3 buns, one queen-cake, one sausage-roll, and 2 bottles of Zoedone": while the two little sisters had been indulging in "8 buns, 4 queen-cakes, 2 sausage-rolls, and 6 bottles of Zoedone".
www.4literature.net /Lewis_Carroll/Tangled_Tale/19.html   (1119 words)

  
 BBC - North East Wales Arts - Alfred Neobard Palmer
Alfred Neobard Palmer was trained and worked as a chemist, writes contributor Christopher Williams, first in East Anglia, then in Manchester, where he met his wife, a Welsh woman, Esther (Ettie) Francis.
He moved with her to Wrexham in 1880 to work as a chemist for a firm called Zoedone, which manufactured mineral water.
In 1884-6 he was the chief chemist at Brymbo Steelworks, but for most of his time in Wrexham he lived on his income from private practice, and what he earned from his published works.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/northeast/guides/halloffame/arts/alfred_palmer.shtml   (935 words)

  
 Victorian London - Food and Drink - Tea Shops - ABC Tea Shops
I remember when I first was an art-student in London there wasn't such a thing as a tea-shop anywhere near where we--the girl-students--could go and get some lunch or a cup of tea.
The only places of the sort were the 'Zoedone'.
In the 'nineties they were very rough and quite impossible to go to, though perfectly well conducted.
www.victorianlondon.org /food/abc.htm   (182 words)

  
 RolandSeeds.com Racecourse of the month: December 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On the way back it was agreed that this was the most successful raid ever in the history of Czech horse racing.
I wanted to suggest "What about Zoedone, owned by Count Kinsky, winner of the 1883 Aintree Grand National?" but I was in the company of Mirek Petran, who with a handful of others has worked hard to ensure the comparative health and competitiveness of Czech horse racing in 2004.
There have been plenty of bad and hard days, and he deserves to enjoy a really major success like this to the full.
www.rolandseeds.com /race/race_12_04.html   (1334 words)

  
 Steeplechasing And Hurdle Racing
The selected of the Brothers Beasley was certain, with fair luck, to go close.
The next year, 1883, the field was one of the worst that ever competed, as well as absolutely the smallest, there having been only ten starters, and Zoedone won in the hands of her Hungarian owner, Count Kinsky.
One of the beliefs in regard to the race used to.
www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/steeplechasing-1.shtml   (6288 words)

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