Robert Peary

Admiral Peary brought Minik and members of his family to New York in 1897.

He's a Harvard Ph.D., conservative to the flap of his long underwear, collects pornographic poetry, has a pistol range in his basement, knows how to mend a dog sled in driving snow and is an Admiral Peary manque, is president of the burial society of Minneapolis, and takes vitamin B1 all summer long on the belief that mosquitoes will not bite a man whose perspiration is saturated with it.

Heading farther north, the quiet college town of Brunswick, home to Bowdoin College, is worth a gander for its brick and clapboard homes and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum (North Pole explorer Admiral Peary was a Bowdoin alum).

Admiral Peary saying He found the North Pole In a fur hat and beard

It was her dying wish that Admiral Peary ran 24 hours later in the Grade 2 Independent Newspaper Novices' Chase, in which the 200-1 shot finished fourth.

Another long-distance-runner to follow today is ADMIRAL PEARY.

Tony McCoy took a nasty-looking fall from Admiral Peary at the second-last after which he became trapped under his mount, but the champion jockey was reported to have suffered just a sore ankle and a cut to his nose.

Admiral Peary can be expected to trouble the judge in the Get The Price At Gg-odds.com Handicap Chase.

ADMIRAL Peary has made the frame in all three outings so far this term and he is again expected to play a part in the Three Swans Handicap Chase at Newbury today (2.25).

Most readers are aware of the major Arctic explorers such as Roald Amundson, Admiral Peary, and Sir John Franklin.

The Jon Portman-trained eight-year-old defeated Admiral Peary at Huntingdon before finishing second to Tufty Hopper there last month.

4.50: MALAKAL (Mr Brian Murphy, 3-1f) 1; Admiral Peary (16-1) 2; Pure Brief (16-1) 3.