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...William Lo, investing in a thoroughbred racehorse is comparable to buying a vintage Bordeaux. An executive for a Hong Kong-based chain of fashionable clothing stores, Lo has been dabbling in both assets for the better part of a decade, and he samples the nose of his wines with the same enthusiasm he reserves for cheering on his charger as it storms a nose ahead. But he knows there's one big difference: "At least with wine," says Lo, "there's a good chance of getting your money back...
...Jockey Club - joining fees start at $30,000. Membership qualifies you to enter a Byzantine annual lottery in which members compete for roughly 300 spots that give them the right to purchase a horse and have it stabled in the Jockey Club's ritzy training facilities. This is how Lo, the Hong Kong fashion executive, became an owner. One of Lo's friends had been trying for years to land a horse, but repeatedly drew blanks in the lottery until linking up with Lo and two others. In 2001, they won ownership rights and went in search of their champion...
...article from March 29, 1943, their lantern-lit jaunts took Pierian members from Brattle Street to Beacon Hill. The HRO website quotes orchestra records from 1840:“It came to pass in the reign of Simon the King, that the Pierians did meet in the tabernacle. And lo! A voice was heard saying, Let us go serenading and they lifted up their voice as one man and they said, Let us go. And behold we went to the city of the Philistines, and did serenade their daughters, and came home about the third hour. And the fame...
...movie is not what one would expect from that former Sexiest Man Alive who didn't marry J. Lo-twice. Or is it? It's axiomatic that those gifts we take for granted are what we most miss when they're gone. Affleck, to all who know or work with him, is bright, hardworking and immensely likable and doesn't take himself too seriously. His willingness to make fun of himself has saved many a dreary Saturday Night Live. "Ben certainly is very intelligent," says Alan Ladd Jr., who produced Gone Baby Gone and knows from up-and-coming directors...
...Lo-Livez] Precision won the U.S. showcase competition, and that inspired me to come back. I thought it would be cool for the two of us to go and rep the U.S.” Zornow explained...