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Gerry stresses the uncertainty involved in breeding. "Penny Tweedy was about ready to leave the business if she didn't get a winner. She was lucky and got two, Secretariat and Riva Ridge...
Martha Gerry stresses consistency over other qualities in Forego's performance. According to her son, she feels that steady excellence is essential to promoting greater public interest in the sport. Bill says he feels that this emphasis is in contrast to that of Penny Tweedy, breeder of Secretariat and Riva Ridge, who Gerry feels had a tendency to overextend the horses to get them before the public...
...treatment center the SDPs admire women who, like Riva Korashon '75, are not afraid to come in and tutor them. When Riva couldn't get down to Bridgewater one week she wrote her tutee a letter. She got back a note written on the level of a struggling first grade student, with post-script "I love...
...question that tugs at would-be String wearers is whether the minibikini will advertise their assets or expose unlovely flaws. Fashion advisers suggest that no woman should be strung after she is 40 years old. Beverly Hills Designer Jim Riva, who spins his own Strings, warns: "It's something I'd hate to see on every woman in the world. It's got to be for the svelte girl only." Jacqueline Onassis, age 44, who is not noticeably callipygian, sports one but has yet to be photographed from astern. In the U.S., the cheeky look has already...
...even if the race is limited to 26 horses, the Derby could be an untamed affair. Lucien Laurin, trainer of the last two Derby winners, Secretariat and Riva Ridge, says that 26 horses bolting from the gate would be "a cavalry charge," with so much bumping and jostling that many horses would be knocked off stride before reaching the first turn. Laurin himself has decided not to enter Secretariat's half brother Capital Asset, an embarrassing relative which finished last in the Wood. Meanwhile, everyone else's horse van keeps arriving in Louisville...