Word: calumet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Laura A. O'Connor Calumet City...
DIED. Lucille Parker Markey, 85, queen of the sport of kings and owner of fabled Calumet Farm; of pneumonia; in Miami. A native Kentuckian, the Grand Lady of the Turf brought a sense of exacting style to the 850-acre, perfectly manicured (23 miles of white painted fences) Lexington farm, which she supervised after the death of her first husband, Warren Wright, in 1950. For more than two decades, Calumet dominated American racing, gathering the Kentucky Derby roses an unprecedented eight times, the Preakness black-eyed Susans seven times and two Triple Crown trophies with Whirlaway (1941) and Citation...
Hugable Tom, whose death in September is under investigation, was foaled six years ago at Calumet Farm in the lushest Kentucky bluegrass. Although he won his first race, the next few were disappointments, and Hugable Tom was gelded. He became a useful horse...
...Calumet Farm's Twilight Tear was Horse of the Year in 1944, but she too was held out of the Triple Crown races as a three-year-old. She went on to beat colts in handicap races later that year. Now, for the first time in 65 years, a filly has beaten the colts in one of the spring classics of the Triple Crown...