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...scuff. Some 70 acres of scrubby land spread out in front of him under the washed-out blue sky. "See the soil. This is junk," Timberlake says. Under his breath, he counts a thin herd of cattle hanging their heads over the weeds. Once a horse trainer and breeder in Missouri, Timberlake now spends his days thinking about cows, and this time next year, he and his employer, Western Cattle Company, would like to see about 10,000 more living on this land. "I'd be taking the ground and turning it into something," he says...
...mission - upsetting the status quo - continues. "The new mall is about saying that a mall in Soweto can be as 21st century as anywhere in the world." As does his enthusiasm for getting up people's noses. After his win with Another Color, Maponya went on to become a breeder, at one time owning the biggest stable in South Africa. And the name of his stud? Maponya laughs. "Black Charger...
...racing is replete with highly touted thoroughbreds whose pedigree and conformation were exquisite, yet who wound up duds. Instead, it comes down to a special, intangible quality-call it spirit or heart-that you can't measure. Silent Witness had it. As a young colt, recalls his Australian breeder Ian Smith, he would "play up badly" if he were not the first fed or walked in the morning: "He dominated his paddock and was always the leader of the horses he ran with. There was something in his eye that said: Look, I'm good." Not just good...
...Afonza and his wife and child managed to escape to the hill. Last week he was still in hiding, but receiving treatment for the wounds on his back and neck. Goat breeder Lemos Pires says he'd been watching his flock when he heard shooting. "I saw Lito running," he says. "There is shooting, and then Lito fell over." Pires says he confronted the soldiers. "I said to them, You are worse than the Indonesians...
...Across the Atlantic, Britain’s last American representative was William S. Farish, millionaire horse breeder and Bush family friend, perhaps as famous for gifting Bush Senior the White House dog, Millie, as for anything else. Reputedly shy by nature, Farish decided not to hold press conferences for the year preceding the Iraq War and further condemned America’s already abysmal reputation in the British press by refusing to answer journalists’ phone calls. In fact the British public noticed little difference when he left thirteen months ahead of schedule, leaving America’s embassy...