Word: mare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breeding a race horse is like baking a soufflé: you find a good recipe, follow it exactly-and heaven only knows what the result will be. Mating a mare named Geisha to a stallion named Polynesian may result in 1) a Native Dancer, who won 21 out of 22 races, or 2) a Noble Savage, who never won a race at all. August Belmont gave his name to a famous race track (New York's Belmont Park), but he is better remembered as the fellow who bred Man o' War-and sold him as a yearling...
India (TERRA INDICA) is slewed around due east of the Mediterranean, with a diminished Asia and China to the north of it. Offshore, across the Magnum mare Tartarorum, are renderings of large offshore islands, probably based on reports of Japan. Africa is lopped off below Ethiopi, but shows the magnus [ft] uuius which is apparently the Niger. In the Atlantic, there are the two mythical quad-shaped islands beyond the Azores that most medieval cartographers insistently put in. But in the upper left-hand corner were the unmistakable outlines of Greenland and Vinland, the latter rounded off into an island...
...luck seemed behind the spacecraft at last. Forgotten for the moment was the mare's nest of trouble that had postponed the flight for two days. Fuel cells running low on fuel, liquid hydrogen boiling uselessly away, telemetering equipment turned suddenly unreliable, fire near the launch pad, thunderstorms aloft−all seemed problems of the past. Now everything was going well; Gemini's orbit was incredibly exact. "Everything is fine," reported Command Pilot Gordon Cooper. "You are go! You are go!" exulted Astronaut Jim McDivitt, capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center near Houston...
Tune-Swept reported home three-quarters of a length before the mare Good Jane, owned by the Estate of W. J. Beattie, who closed with a rush on the outside. --The Morning Telegraph, August...
...because three of his four 1965 victories had come on Maryland's deep, sandy tracks. His breeding probably had something to do with it too. Sired by Ribot, two-time winner of the Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, Tom Rolfe was foaled by the stakes-winning mare Pocahontas. Owner Raymond Guest, the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, named him after the son of the real Pocahontas, who grew tobacco in the days when smoking was still a social sort of vice...