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...spin-off of Canadian auto-parts maker Magna International, has spent about $1 billion to buy 12 U.S. tracks over the past five years, including Pimlico and Bay Meadows. The company may also bid for the scandal-plagued New York Racing Association's tracks, which include Saratoga and Belmont Park. "I love horses, but I just got bored going to the racetrack," says Frank Stronach, Magna's chairman, who became one of the world's top breeders while he was making billions of dollars selling car seats. "They're so cliquey, so clubby, so badly run. So I decided...
...survived by a daughter, Beverly Claire Donohue of New York City and two sons, John of Palo Alto, Calif. and Thomas of Belmont, Mass., as well as six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren...
...Harrison Pope Jr., director of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., is exploring these kinds of questions. In a study published this year in the American Journal of Psychiatry, he reported recruiting 56 depressed men, checking their testosterone and finding that what he called an "astonishing" 24 of them had low or borderline levels of the hormone. To determine if this played a role in the men's depression, he had part of the group apply testosterone gel to their skin every day for eight weeks while another part did the same with a placebo...
...support Democrats. I support Hillary because she’s a Democrat,” said Patricia Hawkins, a Belmont social worker who said she appreciated the senator’s stance on health care and welfare...
...track was soaked, but it wasn't Mother Nature that beat Funny Cide in the Belmont Stakes, keeping the horse from becoming the first in 25 years to win the Triple Crown. It was EMPIRE MAKER, which had been the favorite to win the Kentucky Derby. Now that all the fun has been spoiled, racing fans must, yet again, wait till next year...