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Article: Eccentric's collection goes on sale.
- Article from:
- Newmarket Journal (Newmarket, England)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2008
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A COLLECTION of photographs and racing memorabilia linked to the eccentric racehorse owner Dorothy Paget will go on sale in Newmarket later this year.
Miss Paget, who died in 1960, was one of the great eccentrics of 20th century racing and began her association with the sport after she inherited a fortune from her grandfather William Whitney, a wealthy American politician.
She became the owner of the legendary Golden Miller, winner of five Cheltenham Gold Cups and the Grand National, as well as Straight Deal, who won the Derby in 1943 before finishing third in the St Leger.
She gambled huge sums every year and, being highly superstitious, wore ...