Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post time at Heinold Downs!" announces Roy Holding, and a crowd of more than 1,000 at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield presses in eagerly against the restraining ropes around the track. In the paddock, the racers snort and squeal in anticipation. "Don't blink," warns Holding, "or you may miss the race...
Yale's Kelly Groteke and Laura Paddock managed to get in the Crimson pack, but Harvard was too deep for the Elis, who entered the meet with a 5-1 record...
...nestled in the foothills of the northern Caucasus, 70 Western horse breeders, half of them Americans, gathered with hard dollars in hand for the annual Tersk stud Arabian horse auction. The goods for sale were definitely low technology, and détente flourished. The buyers sat in a verdant paddock and listened as an auctioneer wheedled, cajoled and otherwise tried to nudge bids upward with capitalist determination. "What's the matter, you leave your wallets at home?" he asked after the first 17 horses were shown and only five were sold for a paltry total...
...ease in a landscape of striking beauty and variety. Each year spring renews the earth around them: "Shreds of cloud hung motionless in the sky. The hills were silvery in the sunlight, the hedges white with hawthorn, and the buttercups spread a film of gold over the fields. The paddock was thick with bleating sheep." As old men, Lewis and Benjamin follow the trails of their childhood: "Along the horizon, the hills were layered in lines of hazy blue; and they reflected how little had changed since they walked this way with their grandfather, over 70 years...
...will take Audrey Hepburn's old role, and with luck the show will reach Broadway in the fall. Till then, tourists should not be alarmed if they hear whinnies in Times Square. It may just be Tommy Tune practicing some of those stylish steps he learned in the paddock back in Texas. - By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York