• first edition Giordano Bruno book, and then he and Chumlee check out two Vespa scooters: a 1976 Super Sprint and a 1973 TS. 580 21 "Slice and Dice" June 1...
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    as yellowjackets (the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula), hornets (genus Vespa), and members of the subfamily Polistinae. Hymenoptera in the form of Symphyta...
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  • ver- true veracious, veracity, verify, verisimilitude, veritable, verity, vespa vesp- wasp vespacide vesper vesper- evening vespertine vestigium vestig-...
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    races, seven of them Group 1s, including the Oaks in 2004 and the Hong Kong Vase in 2005, while amassing over £3 million in prize money. In 2004, she won...
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  • congius spoken of by Pliny. A long-necked vase without handle, bearing the inscription IMP. CAESARE VESPAS. VI. T. CAES. AUG. F. IIII COS. MENSURAE EXACTAE...
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  • cingulata (eastern cherry fruit fly) Thaumastocoris peregrinus (bronze bug) Vespa velutina (Asian predatory wasp) (in France) Xylosandrus germanus (black...
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    Wells (USA) won 8 races on the flat, over hurdles and fences, 2nd G3 Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot 2002 Streets of Gold (IRE), b.g. by Sadler's Wells (USA) won...
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    Murtagh, Dancing Rain finished eighth out of 12 starters in the Hong Kong Vase won by Red Cadeaux. Dancing Rain was retired from racing at the end of 2012...
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  • length over the horse Father Confessor. L'Abbesse was second in the Gold Vase in June at Ascot, losing to Tyrant, a horse owned by A.M. Singer "of sewing...
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    a straight track. Later in June Beam was beaten by Adieu in the Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot. She won one other minor race in 1927 before being retired...
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    over long distances, winning the City and Suburban Handicap and Ascot Gold Vase as a four-year-old. Adventurer also sired the Classic winners Pretender and...
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  • bay filly, 1959, by Tenerani. Winner. Dam of Politico who won the Chester Vase and St Simon Stakes and was the sire of Party Politics Cat And Fiddle, chestnut...
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    colt, foaled in 1969, sired by High Hat. Won one race, runner-up in Chester Vase. Principia, bay filly, 1970, by Le Fabuleux. Won over 2000 metres in France...
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    quarters of a length and a neck from Glorvina (later to win the Queen's Vase) and Torchlight. Georges Stern, who rode the favourite, appeared to ride...
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    Martagon, a stayer whose biggest wins came in the Goodwood Cup and Queen's Vase before going on to sire the St Leger winner Wool Winder. Her dam Siberia...
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    Ascot, Formosa was beaten by Siderolite in the running for the two-mile Gold Vase. At the July meeting at Newmarket, Formosa was beaten by ten lengths by the...
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    fourth in the City and Suburban Handicap to Mornington, second in the Gold Vase to Thorn, and last of seven in the Ascot Gold Cup behind Cremorne. In her...
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    Martagon, a stayer whose biggest wins came in the Goodwood Cup and Queen's Vase before going on to sire the Snow Marten and Wool Winder. Her dam Palmflower...
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  • favourite and won from Concertina. In autumn she finished second to the Queen's Vase winner Puttenden in the Lowther Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse, and ran unplaced...
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  • L'Abbesse de Jouarre. Later that year she ran unplaced in the Ascot Gold Vase, Royal Hunt Cup, Goodwood Cup and Liverpool Autumn Cup. Despite reports that...
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  • Musidora, the most successful being the colt Sovrango, who won the Chester Vase, the Ormonde Stakes and the Oxfordshire Stakes. Musidora came from the second...
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    Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth. Her sire, Adventurer won the Gold Vase at Royal Ascot and two runnings of the City and Suburban Handicap at Epsom...
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    eleven days later Rosedrop was matched against male opposition in the Gold Vase over two miles and finished unplaced behind the colt Charles O'Malley. In...
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