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Shakespeare's Richard III offered his kingdom for a horse, but nowadays he probably would have to up his bid. At the 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...
...summer, the Home Ranch, north of Steamboat Springs, Colo., is a modestly successful dude ranch, luring urban cowboys and cowgirls with live horseflesh and barbecued beef. When the snows come, the ranch, like scores of summer inns and resorts from the California Sierra to Massachusetts, becomes a cross-country skiing resort. The demand for cross-country accommodations-and the carefully prepared trails through snowy woods, mountains and meadows they offer-has risen dramatically...
...race. Geldings must have some quality, because the object is to wind up with a useful race horse. They must not have too much quality, because the big money is in breeding. Successful colts become richly syndicated stallions. At the last Keeneland summer sale, the Cartier's of horseflesh, one yearling went for $3.5 million, more than any horse ever won, even John Henry. In this coldblooded, blueblooded business, it is a nice thought that a peasant like John Henry, who was once sold for $1,100, is going to be Horse of the Year...
...were often not allowed even to own the horses they rode. North of the border, cowboys were hardly better off; slaves riding mules sometimes tended Louisiana herds. In California, though Franciscans taught Indians to herd steers from the saddle, their problem was that the braves favored the taste of horseflesh over beef. Many sermons were no doubt devoted to God's love of horses as transportation, and his preference for cattle at dinner...
...urgent condition of the modernist tradition into which Milosz was thrust by history. As he wrote in Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait (1945): "Keeping one hand on Marx's writings, he reads the Bible in private./ His mocking eye on processions leaving burnt-out churches./ His backdrop: a horseflesh-colored city in ruins...