Word: rivas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broke his leg. In the 1953 Kentucky Derby, Native Dancer was bumped and then forced to go so far outside that he could have stopped for a mint julep in the clubhouse. He won the Preakness and the Belmont, but his Triple Crown was lost. Nashua, Needles, Damascus, Riva Ridge?the list of excellent colts that were upset is sad and long. In some years, the fields were so strong that the horses killed one another off. In 1957 three exceptional horses divvied up the Triple Crown: Gallant Man, Iron Liege and Bold Ruler...
...wife Iris, Countess zu Dohna-Lauck, 28, he moved to New York in 1974 and started a real estate investment concern that grossed nearly $10 million last year and may double that sum this year. Most of his business is with fellow Europeans. Laurenti's scholarly partner, Roberto Riva, 38, was born in Peru of Italian ancestry, earned his degrees in Italy, owned a prosperous oil trading company in Houston and decided to settle permanently in the U.S. Says Laurenti: "Here you get rewarded for your merits, not for what your father has done." Michael Garstin, 29, a British...
...kind of show that only a museum with the resources of MOMA could bring together-more than 450 prints, books and bronzes, accompanied by a catalogue raisonné by Art Historian Una Johnson, and all assembled by MOMA's director of prints and illustrated books, Riva Castleman...
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...