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...North American farms, but only about 3% ever win a stakes race, much less one of the Triple Crown races. Breeding Thoroughbreds is far from an exact science. Says Brownell Combs II, the manager of Spendthrift Farms, regularly one of the tops in the sport: "You breed the best mare you can possibly get to the best stallion you can possibly get and then you hope for the best." And Combs adds: "Breeding Thoroughbreds is like rolling dice...
Honorable mentions went to Mare D. Granetz '78 for "The Restaurant," published in the November 1977 issue of The Harvard Advocate, and David L. Owen '78 for his parody. "Three Poets," from the December 1977 issue of The Harvard Lampoon...
...door to a horse that ate like one, chop a hole in the wall so the hunger striker would observe the mad gluttony in the next stall and, sure enough, the power of suggestion usually worked. Once Jacobs determined from what he felt was a pained expression on a mare's face that her shoes were too tight, and another time he diagnosed a horse's problem as loneliness. Solution: find another lonely horse to share the stall. Jacobs and Bieber raced their horses often, or as one critic sniffed, they ran them "like a fleet of taxi...
...story began last June when the U.S. Department of Agriculture began picking up reports of CEM afflicting breeding, first in France, then in Ireland and England. The disease, which can also be transmitted by handlers, makes it difficult for a mare to conceive and carry a foal for the full eleven-month term. Still, neither the British nor the Irish made too much of the malady when the USDA inquired. Neither did the French. According to Ralph Knowles, the department's chief staff veterinarian, the French told the U.S. that the sickness was not highly contagious and that they...
...from White Pass, Wash., is obviously having a marvelous time. He skis, as one leading foreign coach puts it, "for sheer joy, unlike the Europeans, who often are driven by political, nationalistic or commercial pressures." At the age of 20, with his best years just ahead, Phil Mahre (pronounced mare) is already the finest American male skier in history, a solid gold-medal prospect for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y. As the World Cup competition ends this week in Arosa, Switzerland, Mahre is second only to Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark...