Word: colts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Temple retired from Sunnybrook Farm. Casey's Shadow is about a family -one crusty dad, three cute sons, no mom -that raises quarter horses in Cajun country. The family is dirt poor and luckless, until the day Dad gets his hands on a promising foal. He names the colt Casey's Shadow because of its attachment to his youngest son, and decides to race it in the $1 million All-American Futurity at Ruidoso, N. Mex. Will Dad be able to come up with the race's stiff entry fee by deadline? Will the horse recover from...
...answers are not terribly hard to guess. Casey's Shadow rarely disobeys the time-honored rules of its kid-and-colt genre. Yet the movie proves that those strictures, when applied with flourish, can still carry an audience across the finish line. While Casey's Shadow is aimed squarely at eleven-year-olds, it is likely to captivate any grownup whose idea of heaven is to steal a Saturday afternoon and secretly reread Black Beauty or Charlotte...
...Cinzano was reported to have suffered massive head injuries in a barn accident-the circumstances of which have never been explained-and had to be destroyed. New York State racing officials suspect that it was Lebón that was destroyed, not Cinzano, and that Cinzano, a blue-chip colt, was run as Lebón-a raced-out plodder who had sold at auction for $600 a few weeks before Gerard purchased...
...race as a four-year-old is a bold one. The Taylors and Hills have turned down stud-syndication offers ranging as high as $14 million; the premiums on Slew's $3.5 million insurance policy run a huge $2,000 per week. Those are, heady figures for a colt bought at auction for a bargain-basement $17,500. But Slew's owners want to return some of their good fortune to the sport. For racing fans, a four-year-old campaign by a Triple Crown Champion would be rich reward indeed...
...been a dud; the Chevette is cramped and lacks style, and so does Ford's Pinto, despite its healthy sales. Detroit does share indirectly in the import boom through sales of autos built abroad by subsidiaries or affiliates of U.S. companies. That includes such models as the Dodge Colt, the Plymouth Arrow and the Buick Opel, all built in Japan, and the Lincoln-Mercury Capri, assembled in Germany. Ford expects to roll out its German-made Fiesta in U.S. showrooms later this summer...