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...they are not quite inexplicable. Horse breeding, once the sport of kings and nobles, is now the delight of international moguls and financial princes. Well-heeled foreigners, particularly the Arabs, like lavish-spending Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktun (who bought the record-breaking filly at Saratoga), have brought piles of new money into the enterprise. In addition, Thoroughbreds are tax sheltered and relatively portable collectibles whose value has appreciated not only more than inflation but well beyond most other investments. The Dow Jones index rose a bare 7% in the past 20 years. Prices at sales like Keeneland...
DIED. Salvador Sánchez, 23, World Boxing Council featherweight champion and one of the sport's best fighters; of injuries after his Porsche 928 collided with two trucks; just north of Querétaro, Mexico. A school dropout at 16, Sanchez once explained, "I found out that I liked hitting people, and I didn't like school, so I started boxing." A peppery tactician, he wore opponents down for late-round knockouts. His record: 43-1-1. "I'd like to step down undefeated," he said last month. "I'm only 23 and I have...
Baseball, as Bill Veeck said, is meant to be fun. The trouble with Steinbrenner is that he manages to turn it into an Oedipal brawl that reduces his athletes to twitching depressives. Baseball reflects the surrounding culture, of course. Americans may get the sport they deserve: corporate, grandiose, soulless. To say that, however, might be to say that we are all responsible for Steinbrenner. That is going much...
...fighting. Thus began a pugilistic attitude that lasted into adulthood. Turner was all the more motivated to establish his virility with his fists because he found no glory on the playing field: he tried football, basketball and baseball and was lackluster at each. He finally turned to a sport that required no special physical talent, just brains, determination and nerve. Ted Turner soon became known as the Capsize Kid, a fanatic sailor. He took crazy chances and rarely won, but he loved the competitive frenzy...
DIED. Lucille Parker Markey, 85, queen of the sport of kings and owner of fabled Calumet Farm; of pneumonia; in Miami. A native Kentuckian, the Grand Lady of the Turf brought a sense of exacting style to the 850-acre, perfectly manicured (23 miles of white painted fences) Lexington farm, which she supervised after the death of her first husband, Warren Wright, in 1950. For more than two decades, Calumet dominated American racing, gathering the Kentucky Derby roses an unprecedented eight times, the Preakness black-eyed Susans seven times and two Triple Crown trophies with Whirlaway (1941) and Citation...