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...Minstrel won four major European races and was syndicated at $9 million. Pat Hogan is Sangster's "salt of the peat" conformation expert, which means he specializes in assessing the look of a horse. The instinctual Hogan once told Sangster to spend $200,000 on an undistinguished-seeming foal he had spotted in a field. Sangster did, and the filly won three of her first six races. Says Sangster: "The big difference between me and amateur breeders is that I listen. They are retired businessmen used to telling everyone what to do. On my team we listen. It works...
...steppes north of the Caucasus, the authors proceed upon a world tour of stud-farms on five continents. They repeat much delightful lore, including stories of Colonel William Hall Walker, who matched mares and stallions according to their zodiac signs and had a horoscope cast for every foal...
...Velvet is a high-strung middle-aged woman (Nanette Newman) who lives in sin with a blocked novelist known as John (Christopher Plummer). Tatum plays Sarah Velvet Brown, a recently orphaned niece who ar rives from Arizona to live with her aunt. Once she meets Pie's latest foal, history very slowly but surely repeats itself...
...story began last June when the U.S. Department of Agriculture began picking up reports of CEM afflicting breeding, first in France, then in Ireland and England. The disease, which can also be transmitted by handlers, makes it difficult for a mare to conceive and carry a foal for the full eleven-month term. Still, neither the British nor the Irish made too much of the malady when the USDA inquired. Neither did the French. According to Ralph Knowles, the department's chief staff veterinarian, the French told the U.S. that the sickness was not highly contagious and that they...
...stickiest entertainment since Shirley 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...