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...that of the clean-cut, well-dressed and almost militarily inaccessible Dyke. Soglin, who has a habit of arguing far into the night, often shows up bleary-eyed at his office. Cartoons, antiwar slogans and newspaper clippings dot the walls around his desk; a plaque that reads HIZZONER DA MARE is on the door. Soglin often pads around his office in his stocking feet, presides over city-council meetings with a half-hidden smile that betrays his amusement at the proceedings...
...first bet at the age of twelve, bought his first race horse in 1957-that is, as soon as he was financially able-now he owns a stable of six. He once competed against Mrs. Tweedy, but his best horse lost by a head to Cicada, the famous mare of The Meadow...
...based on the belief that every horse, male or female, has some defects; the trick is to cross bloodlines so that the dam's virtues cancel out the sire's flaws and vice versa. According to this theory, she had the ideal mate for Bold Ruler-a mare called Somethingroyal, daughter of a very different kind of sire named Princequillo...
...anything he saw that resembled food. Inevitably, he got chubby, then more so, and it began to look as if he would be the plump kid on the block who never makes the team. He still has the appetite of the growing boy he is. A small race mare does well to eat 8 or 9 qt. of oats a day, and 12 qt. are a lot for an above-average male. Secretariat is what track people call a "good doer." He eats 16 qt., and between meals keeps his groom busy replenishing the supply of hay on which...
...value in stud was set a few months ago at just over $6,000,000-a price arrived at by finding that 32 people were willing to pay $190,000 each, even before he won as a three-year-old, for the privilege of being able to breed one mare to him a year for the rest of his life. He might bring half again as much today...