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...officiated at the marriage of a juror's child and twice juggled the trial vacation to accommodate juror honeymoons. "This court cannot stand in the way of love," he states. Or of birth, for that matter. He declared a day off when one juror's mare dropped a foal...
...creature is attended, none too reverently, by brown pragmatic dwarfs. One cannot imagine that a more rhetorical horse-one of Rubens' baroque equine wardrobes, say, all flourishing hoofs and cascading mane-could possess the same intensity. Hambletonian may have been sired by a classical frieze, but his only foal would be the horse in Guernica, thrusting its outraged neck toward the indifferent sky of the 20th century. -By Robert Hughes
...including women and children. They baptized an Indian named Manteo (Manteo is the name of the principal town today), the first successful act of Protestant proselytization in the New World, and a girl, Virginia Dare (Dare is the name of the county today), was born, the first British foal in this land. From 1587 to 1590 the English were tied up with King Philip's Spanish Armada, and the colony assumed far less importance. When an expedition at last arrived to check on the settlement, it found no one home...
...Kentucky, the sight of a horse giving birth is nearly as common as bluegrass. But last week when a 26-year-old mare named Kelly rolled over to foal on the clean straw of her specially lit, rubber-padded stall at a farm outside Louisville, the two attending veterinarians monitored the birth with more than customary anticipation. Reason: the newborn animal that later staggered uncertainly to its feet was a zebra...
While Madden and her circle have always been the subject of gossip and raised eyebrows, most people have not lost sight of what really makes Lexington run: its Thoroughbreds. "We take it [breeding] seriously," says Horsewoman Mary Jane Gallaher. "It's more important whether a foal is upside down in a mare than whether a few flake-out Louies are playing weird games on the side...