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...poison. Now he lives in Rumney, N.H. (pop. 820) with his three sheep. Says he: "A neighbor had these two, and they were going to be slaughtered if they weren't sold. So we bought them. We didn't know it, but the ewe had been bred and so now we have three. I hope it stops there...
...League-bred players are few and far between in the NFL, although Harvard currently has two alumni lacing up the cleats in the big time--Danny Jiggets '76 with the Chicago Bears and Pat McInally '75 with the Cincinnati Bengals...
...horse around a track, only to blunt his spirit for the run, and rating him kindly, handily, through the pace, while conserving enough of his energy for the stretch drive. Steve had the gift even before he had the jockey's dream. Says Tex Cauthen: "He had horses bred in him as a small child and was a good horseman from a very young age. He could make them do whatever he wanted...
...Georgia more than four decades ago. Since their marriage in 1972, Patrice and Louis Wolfson-the owners of Affirmed-have been one of the most successful racing couples in the sport. Their Harbor View stable is now the leading money winner. They did not buy Affirmed; they bred him through three generations, and Wolfson has turned down an offer of $8 million for the nation's prize Thoroughbred. Says he: "When you breed and race a horse like this, you wouldn't take $15 million or $20 million...
...long evenings at home laying plans for his future (they intend to race him next year as a four-year-old). "It makes me remember so much," Patrice says. "My father was a great trainer and breeder, and that's what we've done with Affirmed. We bred him, raised him and raced him. And we did another thing my father used to do: the Bieber-Jacobs stable believed in running rather than training. Affirmed is an iron horse. He has run 14 times and won 12. He was the richest three-year-old ever to enter...