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...Gallahad III, one of the greatest sires of all time, the sire of triple crown winner Gallant Fox, and the grandsire of triple crown winner Omaha. Hasty Road's maternal grandsire is Discovery, a champion racer and an excellent sire. Other daughters of Discovery include Miss Disco, Bold Ruler's dam, and Geisha, the dam of Native Dancer. Discovery is by Display, who is by the sire of Man O' War and is a legendary handicap horse...
...almost comatose state in which he would sleep for several days. His eating habits were equally bizarre. He existed largely on unvaried diets consisting mainly of such sweets as fudge and cakes. At one time he developed an obsession for cakes that were perfectly square. "We had a ruler in the kitchen to measure them with," recalls the former chef at the Bayshore Inn in Vancouver, where Hughes stayed in 1972. At other times he would fast for days. Usually he drank bottled Poland water from Maine...
Gerry is justifiably proud that his mother did not get her champion by paying huge stud fees for super-sires like Bold Ruler or by spending exorbitant amounts for untested horses, like the then-record $600,000 paid for Wajima as a yearling...
Montezuma is about as grand as opera can get. The story is that of Cortez's conquest of Mexico and subjugation of Montezuma, the enlightened ruler of the Aztecs. In its clash of cultures and religions, and in its juxtaposition of war and idyllic love scenes, Montezuma is a powerful statement about the human condition that calls for astute judgment and courageous imagination. This Caldwell has provided, with astonishingly flexible sets (by Helen Pond and Herbert Senn) and bold lighting effects (by Gilbert Hemsley) that the Aztec sun gods might have admired. On the musical side, Boston...
...Cornell, making art was the most private activity imaginable. It set him free, but the freedom was that of the puritan aristocrat, not the anticlerical rebel. He was the exquisite ruler of little boxes, an incomparably more gifted Ludwig II who constructed his Neuschwanstein-swans, grottoes, secret chambers, opera house and permanent twilight-in the space of half a cubic foot...