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Only his heirs could care whether a millionaire throws away $6,000. But veteran horsemen could not resist a tsk-tsk or two when Cincinnati Industrialist Lloyd Miller laid out that sum for a thoroughbred filly at the 1966 yearling auctions in Keeneland, Ky. The youngster's sire, Persian Road II, was so poorly regarded as a stallion that he later sold for only $6,000. Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot. The filly herself was more the size of a Shetland pony than a race horse and the only thing...
...year-old park is all that venerable; Saratoga is 41 years its senior. True, it is the setting for some of the most prestigious U.S. races, including the Belmont Stakes, traditionally the third gem in the Triple Crown. But what made Belmont really special was that society's horsemen built it to their own specifications. So overwhelming was the track's mood of genteel opulence that it even awed the $2 bettors: Belmont's race crowds have always been remarkably well-behaved...
...horse out of a good one. Among the myriad rumors in Louisville last week was the story that someone gave Bute to Dancer's Image by accident at night, mistaking him for another horse -and the stewards gave it some credence by questioning other horsemen whose charges had been stabled near the Dancer's barn during Derby week. But Dancer's Image is a grey, an unusual color among thoroughbreds. He also is 1,050 Ibs. of fighting muscle; anybody blind enough to invade his stall by mistake would be taking his life in his hands-especially...
...stable alongside the garage. In Rolling Hills, on Los Angeles County's Palos Verdes Peninsula, there are now 2,000 people and 4,000 horses. In Kansas City, teen-agers ride their horses through the streets after school. In Lakewood, Colo., an unprecedented 1,100 horsemen turned up for this year's Easter parade. In California alone, horse owners this year will spend $200 million equipping and feeding their mounts; nationwide, the cult of the horse may top $4 billion this year...
...collage requires an agile audience. The leap between words and meaning is enormous; to make it is to participate in the art. Dylan's words, falling out of time and place, often admit of no leap. "In ceremonies of the horsemen even the pawn must hold a grudge." Does the charge come from sound or meaning? Is this communication or anarchy? If anarchy, one wants to know why so many of us respond because Dylan is not alone, only ahead of other pop artists and singers, all the masters of the put-on. Once upon a time we had Ruby...