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...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...
When the shot miraculously dropped, Watson ran off his tension and excitement, galloping around the edge of the green with his head tossed back like a chestnut colt's. "All I saw was him running around," said Nicklaus, who had completed his own play and was watching a television monitor near the 18th green. "At first I thought he had flipped out, because I couldn't imagine anyone holing it from there." After Watson had plotted a careful par at 18, only happening to make the birdie putt for a two-shot victory, there was Nicklaus waiting...
Timely Writer, the early favorite, survived emergency abdominal surgery April 20, perhaps to run again in a few months. The next most admired colt, Hostage, took a false step in a workout five days before the race and fractured an ankle. He is through racing...
...dreamers' choice in the Derby was Cassaleria, a one-eyed colt with claustrophobia, the solitary member of the "20/20 Stable" (slogan: "Thine eye has seen the glory"). Cassaleria is another star-crossed son of Pretense, the father of poor Sham, who would have won any other Kentucky Derby and most other Preaknesses but finished second to Secretariat on both occasions in 1973. One of Cassaleria's first bobbling steps after birth tumbled him into a fence post and poked out his left eye, leaving a sorry-looking fleshed-over socket...