Word: siring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do you give the monarch who has everything? Knowing Queen Elizabeth II's fondness for horseflesh, Australians decided to commemorate her silver jubilee three years ago with a Thoroughbred. A champion sire was bred to six mares. Of four foals resulting, one was a colt (the Queen preferred a filly), another was injured. The remaining pair were recently matched in a speed trial. Last week, visiting Canberra, the Queen paused to accept the winner. "A wonderful present," said Elizabeth, who dubbed the two-year-old bay Australia Fair...
Diana Firestone and her husband Bert, owner of 1975 Derby winner Foolish Pleasure, bought Genuine Risk at auction for $32,000. Her bloodlines were impressive: her sire, Exclusive Native, was also the sire of Affirmed, the 1978 Triple Crown winner, and her grandsire, Gallant Man, won the Belmont Stakes in 1957. The Firestones, who breed and occasionally break their own horses at the family's Virginia farm, register the colts under Mr. Firestone's name and the fillies under Mrs. Firestone...
Believe me, Sire, these countries far surpass all the rest of the world in beauty and conveniency...