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...inscrutable methods used to gauge it can befuddle dilettantes, good fortune can smile on the persistent. In 2003, following the Garden Party disappointment, Lo and his partners from various corners of Hong Kong's professional world - manufacturing, movies and modeling - located another 2-year-old gelding named Pocket Money in Ireland through a trainer's connections. They bought him and shipped him to Hong Kong. After two seasons with little consistent success racing the horse at various distances and in differing weight classes, they switched to another trainer, who guessed Pocket Money was best suited...
...profit is far from his greatest satisfaction, he says. That comes from the monthly visits he makes to the stables with his 5-year-old son to visit Pocket Money. Sometimes, the horse is sad and his son puzzles over the sprinter's mood. But the day after a Pocket Money victory, there are smiles all around. "You can see it on the horse's face," says Lo. "You know that he's proud." And that's a look any horse owner would say is priceless...
...Paul's running mate when he ran as a Libertarian in 1988. "I saw him referred to in print as semi-eccentric. He's maybe 10% eccentric. It's his ideas that are eccentric. But it's basic Americanism." Paul is such a strict constructionist that he autographs pocket Constitutions more often than Tommy Lee signs breasts...
...dispatched officers to Gund Hall to take a report of a theft in progress. Upon arrival, they saw an individual pushing a bicycle, which the individual claimed he owned. The individual was then run for warrants with negative results. During the field interview, the individual attempted to cover his pocket. The officers noticed a needle. Paul Gerbrands, 22, was placed under arrest after the officers found a class B substance, a class D substance, and more needles. October 132:37 a.m.—HUPD responded to a report of an assault at the Soldiers Field Park Complex. The reporting...
...deep in Harvard territory, quelling a Dartmouth scoring threat that would have given the Big Green a 14-7 first-quarter lead.After the initial interception, Pizzotti, who finished 16-of-24 with 193 yards, settled down and demonstrated his expanded repertoire is here to stay, displaying mobility in the pocket and the ability to work both options and design runs. Pizzotti showed Winters wasn’t the only one who could do the Dawson on Dartmouth’s ‘D,’ scoring 14 unanswered points on a pair of one-yard touchdown runs...