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    George Monroe Woolf (May 31, 1910 – January 4, 1946), nicknamed "The Iceman", was a Canadian thoroughbred race horse jockey. An annual jockey's award...
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  • Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of middle-aged couple Martha and George....
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    Adeline Virginia Woolf (/wʊlf/; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist...
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  • statue of "Seabiscuit" and a life sized statue of the renowned jockey, George Woolf, and statues of cowboy entertainer Will Rogers. Wheeler was born to James...
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    After trying three, he settled on George Woolf, an already successful rider and old friend of Pollard's. Woolf's first race aboard Seabiscuit was the...
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  • Alternate spellings include Wolfe, Wolff, Wulf and Wolf. Woolf is a name that is used as a surname, given name, and a name among Germanic-speaking peoples:...
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  • again, let alone ride, he recommends that his friend and skilled jockey George Woolf ride Seabiscuit, advising him on the horse's handling and behavior from...
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  • The George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award has been presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, annually since 1950 to the thoroughbred horse racing...
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    Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf, CH, PC, FBA, FMedSci (born 2 May 1933) is a British life peer and retired barrister and judge. He was Master of the Rolls...
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  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols in his directorial debut. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is an...
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  • is a bibliography of works by the English novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf (1882–1941). The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob's Room (1922)...
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    races (matched in 2015 by Victor Espinoza). He was voted the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award that honors a rider whose career and personal conduct...
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  • V, at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, California. In 1951, he won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. At the age of 19, he was making so much money...
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  • Womack, older brother of Cecil Womack George Woolf (1910–1946), Hall of Fame jockey, rider of Seabiscuit John Elgin Woolf (1908–1980), architect Robert Woolsey...
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    sport of Thoroughbred racing. In 2017 Stewart Elliott was voted the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, a prestigious honor voted on by thoroughbred horse...
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    Rat (1965), he co-starred in the classic drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Through the next decade and a half, Segal consistently starred...
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    age had won that storied race. Borel was named the winner of the 2010 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. On May 1, 2010, he rode Super Saver to win his...
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    In 2009, Velazquez, nicknamed "Johnny V", was awarded the Santa Anita George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award by his fellow jockeys in recognition of his career...
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    opened in 1925 and crafted boots for many notable jockeys including George Woolf of Seabiscuit fame. Adolph Michael Kroop immigrated to New York from...
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  • Emma-Jayne Wilson Rick Wilson Fred Winter Otto Wonderly Hedley Woodhouse George Woolf Harry Wragg Wayne D. Wright Manuel Ycaza Kazuo Yokoyama Norihiro Yokoyama...
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    at Santa Anita. In the 2003 movie Seabiscuit, Stevens played jockey George Woolf, receiving generally positive reviews. He was recruited for the role...
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    venture capitalist Wil Wheaton, actor, Star Trek: The Next Generation George Woolf, horse jockey, owner of The Derby restaurant in Arcadia and rider of...
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    jockey in purses won in 1943 and 1945. He was voted the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1952. In 1958, Longden was inducted into the...
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  • overall jockey and that same year his peers voted him the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. In 1991, he was voted the Mike Venezia Memorial...
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    on a single card. During his career, Pincay was voted the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1970 that honors a rider whose career and personal...
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  • A Room of One's Own (category Essays by Virginia Woolf)
    is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham...
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  • Santa Anita Park's European-style paddock there are statues of jockeys George Woolf, Johnny Longden, Bill Shoemaker and Laffit Pincay Jr. plus a memorial...
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    home base from New York to Southern California. That year he won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award that honors a rider whose career and personal conduct...
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    fourth straight year with 322 victories, and was also the winner of the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, bestowed by his peers for excellent conduct and...
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  • para-snowboarder, and author Steve Waugh (born 1965), Australian former cricketer George Woolf (1910–1946), Canadian jockey Brad Colbert (born 1974), American Marine...
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