Old Hat (horse) of Flowers, and Venture were also competing. Among this company, she was voted Champion Female Handicap Horse by the Thoroughbred Racing Association in 1964, although the rival "Daily Racing Form" chose the three-year-old Tosmah. Old Hat won both awards in her best season, 1965, when she was six years old. Old Hat raced for six years, starting in 80 races. She won 35 times, placed 18 times, and came in third 9 times. All in all, she was in the money 62 times. Old Hat (horse) Old Hat (foaled in Kentucky in 1959), was an American Thoroughbred racing mare by
Old money away with (literally) murder; while those with new money, represented by Gatsby himself, are alternately embraced and scorned by other characters in the book. Fitzgerald vastly critiques people in possession of old money through his narrator Nick Carraway: "“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”" Old money Old money is "the inherited wealth of established upper-class families (i.e. gentry, patriciate)" or "a person, family,