The largest payout for a bet on a horse race was $1,627,084 after tax, paid to Britons Anthony Speelman and Nicholas Cowan on their $64 nine-horse accumulator at Santa Anita Racecourse, California, in 1987.

The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.

The old choirboy schools still performed their service for the sons of some artisans and petty traders, and more important, the numbers of vernacular schoolteachers and reckonmasters multiplied.

On a raceway near Riverside, California, a dragger was fatally injured when his dragster went out of control […]