Word: haggin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family-owned for generations. Adjoining them is Elmendorf Farm, an important breeding establishment since 1871. Sprawling over 500 hilly acres, through woods and along North Elkhorn Creek, the present-day Elmendorf is the heart of what was once a vast 9,800-acre tract owned by James Ben Ali Haggin, fabulous copper baron. A farm of such scope could not exist in tax-ridden 1952, but most Lexington breeders are content to stress quality-and hope that the racing boom lasts forever...
...years and a citizen for twelve, he is also, beyond doubt, the finest living choreographer. No one today can equal the lyric grace of his inventions, the cool classicism of his abstract designs. Totting up all of his various qualities, the Nation's exacting B. H. Haggin goes so far as to call him "the greatest living creative artist...