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Charging into the lead in the last few strides, War Knight, 6 year old bay horse owned by Miss Ethel Hill, Hollywood scenario writer, won the $100,000 added Santa Anita Handicap in a photo finish.
- 1 2 "Movie Magnates Eye Easy Dough". Salt Lake Tribune . Associated Press. December 23, 1945 – via Newspapers.com.
Screenwriter Ethel Hill plans to mop up with War Knight, winner of the Arlington Handicap in 1944
- 1 2 Jimmie Fidler (April 7, 1946). "Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood". Monroe Morning World – via Newspapers.com.
Ha! Screen-Writer Ethel Hill, whose nag won the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, had to change her phone number to escape from too-insistent salesmen!
- 1 2 Norman, Marc (October 8, 2008). What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting. Crown Publishing Group. p. 136. ISBN 978-0307450203 . Retrieved January 6, 2015.
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