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#165151 01/15/07 05:16 PM
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A good friend is a football coach @ Monrovia High School - named Garrison! Imagine my surprise at the double entendre in my inbox this morning!

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Hi, molemos, and welcome aBoard. Be sure to tell your friend he's famous!

I had to look this guy up. No wonder I hadn't heard of him: he was a damyankee. Apparently did most or all of his riding up north, as well as being born there. Can't minimize his success, though--geez.

Garrison, "Snapper" (Edward H.)
Horse racing
b. Feb. 9, 1868, New Haven, CT
d. Oct. 28, 1930
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Garrison, who became a professional jockey when he was only 12 years old, pioneered the "Garrison finish," holding a horse back for most of the race and then coming on with a driving sprint in the stretch.

During his 17-year riding career, he won nearly 7,000 races and had total winnings of more than $2 million. He Rode Foxford to victory in the 1891 Belmont Stakes, took the Suburban Handicap at Belmont in 1889 and 1892, and won the Withers Stakes in 1890 and 1892.

After retiring as a rider, Garrison worked as a trainer and racing official.

National Horse Racing Hall of Fame


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Hmm--glad I went on to try finding a picture (with success). This article says Unfortunately, no accurate count of Garrison's race record exists, but Garrison once estimated he had over 700 winners in 16 years of riding. This seems much more likely to me. Seven thousand races is a lot to ride over 16-17 years, let alone win nearly all of them.

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

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from your second link:

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Garrison claimed that his best mount was Tammany, on which he won the 1892 Jerome, Withers, and Lawrence Realization. He also guided Firenze to victory in the Jerome Stakes, Monmouth Oaks and Monmouth Handicap.




do you think that JK Rowling knows about Garrison?


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the Jerome of the 1892 Jerome, Withers, and Lawrence Realization and the Jerome Stakes, was almost certainly Jennie (Jerome)Churchills father, a well known realestate developer in NYC who owned the Jerome Racetrack,(now the site of nyc holding reservoir, in the bronx).

Jennie was as most of you know, married to Randolph, and mother to Winston. (the family owned real estate all over NY, Jennie was born at home, in Brooklyn (carrol gardens area).

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? 'Splain, please?

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? 'Splain, please?




Firenze is a characer in the Harry Potter books.


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Oh! Maybe that's one of the things I can't understand in the Goblet of Fire movie. I asked for and got #'s 2, 3, and 4 for Christmas (well, actually I asked for any; they didn't realize they'd skipped #1). That's the only one where there are places I simply cannot understand what they're saying, no matter how many times I play it over; and if they're saying strange words like that, I'm not likely to get it, either. Thanks!

I may read the books, eventually; so far I've been afraid to...


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they're saying strange words like that

Firenze is Italian for Florence, the city in Tuscany.


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> no matter how many times I play it over; and if they're saying strange words like that

you do realize that there is a Subtitles feature...


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Well, no--actually, I hadn't. No one had ever figured out how to get them on the television set (my son did it once by accident, and like to have never gotten them off of there--and he was a teenager!); so I'd gotten so used to not having them available, it didn't occur to me that the CD player might have them--until I was discussing this with Bingley. He suggested it, and...right there on the CD player's remote control was a Subtitles button! So, thank you, Bingley. I'll go back to the beginning of the movie now, after I've seen all of it.

I believe it was in the course of that conversation that I found out that Brit-speakers pronounce the name Babel so that it rhymes with table. Has anyone else heard this?

EDIT: Firenze is Italian for Florence Thank you; this I knew from reading, once it was explained to me by the traveler who'd been there; but it's not likely I'd understand it auditorily. My Italian is pretty much limited to musical terms.

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