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...Then, in February of 1960, on a visit to Hialeah, he ran into Chuck Parke, trainer of a string of thoroughbreds owned by Florida Businessman Fred Hooper. "I knew he was great the first time I put him on a horse," recalls Parke. "I told him to breeze a colt five furlongs in 1 min. 2 sec., and when I looked at my watch I couldn't believe it. It read exactly 1 min. 2 sec." Hooper quickly signed up Baeza as contract jockey for his stable...
...designed the black suit to be less visible swinging from a parachute against the night sky. He also affected pearl-handled pistols in the cockpit, and has a considerable gun collection, to which he added in Honolulu with the purchase of a .357 Magnum and a symbolically-named Colt .45 Peacemaker. He also picked up a .22 revolver for the demure Madame Ky, a beauteous former Air Viet Nam stewardess whom he married after the divorce of his first wife. With 4,000 hours' flying time, Ky has only partly succeeded in letting his duties as Premier ground...
...lease the undefeated Italian stallion Ribot for stud duty, improving the stock at his farm in Lexington, Ky. When his original lease ran out last year, about all Galbreath had to show for his money was five years of feed bills and a sore-legged two-year-old colt named Graustark...
Sired by Ribot and foaled by Galbreath's stakes-winning mare Flower Bowl, Graustark was a big (16 hands), rangy colt bred for endurance rather than speed. But at Illinois' Arlington Park last summer, he showed all kinds of speed-winning a six-furlong maiden race by seven lengths, an allowance sprint by nine, the $54,600 Arch Ward Stakes by six. Then he bucked his shins and retired for the year. "Sometimes," sighed Galbreath, "these things work out for the best...
...sanity with injections of the needle. The red-blooded Young Cowboy gets the banker's daughter in trouble, and reveals the scene of his home-leaving when his father caught him with his sister: "I was but twelve, but I faced him down even then. I had my colt apointin' at his heart afore he even got his gun out." So much for The American Dream...