Burns and Allen of the Academy Awards, a record that would remain until Jessica Tandy won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1989. Burns, who became a centenarian in 1996, continued to work until just weeks before his death of cardiac arrest on March 19, 1996, at his home in Beverly Hills. In 1929 Burns and Allen made their debut radio performance broadcast in London on the BBC. In the United States, they had failed at a 1930 NBC audition. After a solo appearance by Gracie on Eddie Cantor's radio show, they were heard together on Rudy Vallee's "The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
Oscar Whisky the winner Cead du Berlais. Oscar Whisky was then brought back in distance to contest the Grade I Tingle Creek Trophy at Sandown on 6 December. Ridden as usual by Geraghty, he was towards the rear of the ten runner field when falling at the sixth fence. Although the horse got up to his feet after the fall he had sustained a serious hind leg injury and was euthanised shortly afterwards. Geraghty paid tribute to the horse saying "He was a warrior. He was so brave, reliable and honest, and he'd never miss a day". Oscar Whisky Oscar Whisky (10