Word: calumet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alydar felt better too. Alysheba's renowned sire, the only horse ever to finish second in all of the Triple Crown races, stands at leafy Calumet not 50 feet from his old tormentor Affirmed. Guess whose sexual favors are worth $350,000 and who has trouble looking whom in the eye now. The bay colt Alysheba, 8-1 in the Derby, is an honest horse but has a hard time keeping to a straight course. In the Blue Grass Stakes nine days earlier, Alysheba finished first but was demoted for swerving in the stretch. Deep thinkers who drop...
...just applied his genius to sailing and is literally driving himself. "At a certain level, does it make much difference?" Conner asks. "Mario Andretti or A.J. Foyt? Or is it the car?" One of the shapeless peaked caps he rotates in endless supply bears the emblem of Calumet Farm. If Kentucky had bred Conner, would he have trained horses? Alydar was a Calumet colt the year Affirmed beat him by an inch in all of the Triple Crown races. Romantics tended to credit that inch to Affirmed's young jockey, Steve Cauthen. "Maybe if it comes to that," Conner says...
...call on him," says Stephens, "and you'll see a horse who'll fight back." As it happens, the second most impressive two-year-old, Swale, is another pupil of Woody's. The thought of two such talents in one barn is taking people back to Calumet days 35 years ago, to Citation and Coaltown, names like plucked strings, back when horses made love for a song...
...have occurred since 1940, out of 301,016 municipal bond issues. In terms of money lost, each of the three largest were around one-twentieth the size of last week's fizzle. The West Virginia Turnpike Commission defaulted on $133 million in bonds in 1958. Chicago's Calumet Skyway collapsed under bond indebtedness of $101 million in 1963, and investors were short-changed in 1978 when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission reneged on $100 million worth of bonds...
...competitors and a third who was fired, charged that dangerous materials had been handled carelessly or even illegally. The attorney general of Illinois filed a $1.1 million lawsuit charging that 400,000 gal. of waste containing a potent carcinogen associated with dye manufacturing had been illegally dumped in a Calumet City landfill. And the company temporarily suspended disposal operations at an Ohio site after belatedly learning that PCB-contaminated oil had been improperly stored there. Waste Management's stock was hit by a huge sell-off at the beginning of the week that drove its price per share down...