Word: colts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month in Kentucky the annual Keeneland Summer Sales, the Academy Awards of equine auctions, did even better. There, 279 yearlings averaged $344,183 apiece, up 32% over last year. One lively colt, son of the extraordinary Nijinsky II, went for an alltime auction record of $4.25 million. Said Kentucky Horse Breeder William O'Neil: "Last year's prices were mind boggling, but this year's are about unbelievable...
...does indeed, helped considerably by scrupulous attention to detail. Before settling on the still unnamed $4.25 million colt at Keeneland, for instance, Buying Agent Tom Cooper scrutinized the yearling carefully during his spring tour of U.S. farms. O'Brien then spent eight hours alone with the youngster, watching his mannerisms, his sweating cycle, whether he was bothered by crowds. Three vets, including a heart specialist, performed a physical, with full X rays. "Leg Man" Bob Griffin examined a race horse's most important assets. And because the colt's most important assets will change after his racing...
...store (open by appointment only). "I wanted to make something so American. I wanted to design a gun that people who hate guns would want to have and touch and play with because it's so pretty." So he had a leather handgrip fashioned for a .38-cal. Colt revolver at his workshop in Florence, inlaid the cylinder with 56 grams of 24-karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch in a Baccarat crystal case embossed with the customer's name. Bijan's own signature is engraved in gold on the shank...
...famed Keeneland Association yearling sales in Lexington, Ky., last week, British Betting Tycoon Robert Sangster, 46, who has parlayed a shrewd interest in horseflesh and an oddsmaker's understanding of the business into a stable of 400 Thoroughbreds, paid $4.25 million for a 15-month-old colt. It was the highest price ever for a race horse at auction. Sangster outbid Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid el Maktoum, Dubai's Defense Minister and the heir apparent to the throne of the principality, who dropped out after offering $4 million. Sangster breezily announced he would have gone higher...
...elms of Saratoga" and the memories of great races, like the 1941 Preakness: "Whirlaway came loping along counting the house with Arcaro sitting still as a bluepoint on the half-shell." To Smith, horses are people with four legs and wonderful names. What a pleasure to learn that a colt by the French stallion Compte de Grasse is named Mow de Lawn...