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...Tweedy who arranged the mating that produced Secretariat. As the father she chose Bold Ruler-a horse that had won 23 races, including the 1957 Preakness, and then turned into one of the greatest sires of all time; his offspring included 69 stakes races winners. Yet Bold Ruler progeny were not perfect. They always seemed at their best in shorter races. It became axiomatic in racing that the Bold Rulers seldom won at 1¼ miles or more...
...best way to describe Bold Ruler's offspring," says Mrs. Tweedy, "is that they've been precocious and brilliant. Most of them have run their best at age two, at the shorter distances, and have been something of a disappointment at three, when they're asked to go farther. Also Bold Ruler was arthritic, and there's a tendency to unsoundness in the family." That means his offspring tend to go lame, early and often. Bold Ruler himself was to die of cancer at 17, which is relatively young...
...breeding theory based on the belief that every horse, male or female, has some defects; the trick is to cross bloodlines so that the dam's virtues cancel out the sire's flaws and vice versa. According to this theory, she had the ideal mate for Bold Ruler-a mare called Somethingroyal, daughter of a very different kind of sire named Princequillo...
Horses sired by Princequillo are usually the exact opposite of Bold Ruler foals; they have proved to be tough, durable, and able to go almost any distance, though seldom blessed with early speed. Mrs. Tweedy had never forgotten what another horse breeder once told her: "The Princequillos will run all day-and if the races get long enough and the other horses get tired enough, sooner or later they...
...William Beecher, a Washington correspondent for the New York Times (now an official at the Pentagon), reported on May 9, 1969 that U.S. B-52s were bombing Communist targets in Cambodia for the first time in the Indochina war-and with the tacit approval of Cambodia's then ruler Norodom Sihanouk. The report seems to have had little impact upon enemy action since the Communists knew perfectly well that they were being bombed. But the disclosure itself clouded the Administration's credibility (as well as that of Prince Sihanouk), since Nixon had been trying to convince the public...