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This week Cattleman Robert Justus Kleberg Jr. (pronounced Clayberg) was riding a range as fabled as Pecos Bill's. The liege lord of all the King ranches and all the King ranchers was winding up the great fall roundup on his many pastures. With his hard-riding vaqueros, amid the dust and acrid smell of burning flesh, Bob Kleberg threaded his horse in & out of the milling hundreds of cherry-red cows and their calves. Lean-faced, gimlet-eyed, with the brim of his Stetson hat upswept in King Ranch fashion, Bob Kleberg told his vaqueros with swift gestures...
...winner of the Big Three in 1946 (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes) and of every race he had entered this year, was still a horse with a future: he is only a four-year-old, and full of run. Before he is retired to stud next year on Robert Kleberg's King Ranch nursery at Lexington, Ky., he may well have earned more than $750,000 and a secure place in horsedom's hall of heroes...
...Bumps, No Fouls. Close by, as the horses lined up for the start, sat Millionaire Cattleman Robert Kleberg, who had passed up a chance to see his great horse Assault win the $40,000 Grey Lag Handicap at New York's Jamaica track. He had posted his $15,000 on Miss Princess, the race track horse he had converted to quarter horsing. Unlike Shue Fly, who is really a glorified range horse and bred for short racing, Princess was royally sired (by Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture). She had once flashed dizzy speed on regulation race tracks-but couldn...
After the race. Winner Bob Kleberg walked over to the Hepler Brothers and offered them $10,000 for Loser Shue Fly. He was politely turned down. Then he issued a friendly invitation that was accepted. Next morning, gallant ten-year-old Shue Fly, her quarter-horsing days over, was shipped to Kleberg's 875,000-acre King ranch, there to be bred to Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture...
Married. Richard Mifflin Kleberg, 59, lobbyist for hoof & mouth disease control among cattle, former Democratic Representative from Texas, owner of champion horse Assault, and part-owner of 1,250,000-acre King Ranch, world's largest privately owned cattle ranch; and Mamie Searcy Kleberg, 57; both for the second time (she divorced him in 1944 for mental cruelty); at his Washington hospital bedside (he suffered a heart attack three weeks...