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...that the stables must be sold, but added the proviso that any of his heirs had first priority to buy. Karim himself is expected to be the first to be first in line with cash in his hand to preserve for the family the prime racing stock developed by Mme. Vuillier-la magicienne de l'Aga Khan...
...description makes Mme. Vuillier blush like a Cub Scout den mother who has been praised for her chocolate-chip cookies. "Please don't call me a magician," she says. "My magic is science. My art is genealogy. A good pedigree reads to me as a Bach fugue sounds to a musician. It's heredity that's winning, not the horse. What difference does it make what the horse looks like, so long as he has the correct genealogy...
Just a Pair. Mme. Vuillier cares so little about the looks of her horses that she seldom visits the stables, almost never goes to a race. Her system of producing a winner begins and ends with a theory of breeding developed by her husband, Colonel Jean-Joseph Vuillier, who ran the Khan stables from 1927 until his death in 1931. The colonel found that hundreds of winning thoroughbreds carried in their veins certain fixed proportions of blood derived from a handful of great horses of the late 19th century. What was more, Vuillier traced the pedigrees of 654 winners back...
Each winter Mme. Vuillier pores over the genealogies of the world's outstanding horses to find the proper blends of blood that will produce a winner. Says she: "Call me, if you will, a 'mixer of cocktails.' " She avoids the common practice of inbreeding her own horses on the ground that it weakens the strain. She often mates two glue-footed platers "We're just looking for a pair of horses with the right traits that will dominate m the offspring," she explains. "The chance of producing a winner from two outstanding horses is smaller than...
...marshal who was booted from power in 1957, was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Bodh Gaya, India. Father of six grown children, Pibulsonggram took an oath of celibacy before a golden image of Buddha. In keeping with Buddhist doctrine, he was not required to divorce his devoted wife, Mme. La-iad, a renowned feminist...