Word: stallions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burning Bay Stallion Incarnates Lawrentian Purity...
...gold stallion changed these women-the mother a little, the daughter much. Lou saw him in the mews where their own mounts were kept a horse of enormous power with dark, invisible flame coming out of him. In his wild jet eyes gleamed demoniac visions of an untamed animal time when there were no human lies about goodness, love, perfection, ideals. He was a celibate stallion and a mankiller. Lou found him a terrible deity who gazed questioning, threatening, untouchable out of another world, with ears like daggers on his naked head...
...bought him, St. Mawr the bay stallion, and made Rico ride him. Rico had known horses as a boy in Australia and to fear St. Mawr angered him beyond control. One day, in St. Mawr's own country, near the Devil's Chair in Wales, Rico screamed at the rearing horse and dragged him over backwards. St. Mawr lashed and strained to rise, his neck arched cruelly, his mad eyes leaping from their sockets. Crushed beneath, Rico still reined the immense horse to earth...
...Gratified, said Major Belmont; "What can a man say ? What can a man say who has just won so great a triumph?" Said Pierre Wertheimer, owner of Epinard: "I believe my horse should have won the race." Said Jockey Haynes, whose overcautious riding turfmen blamed for the French stallion's second U. S. defeat: "It was a shame...
...year-old horse, ill-fed, bony, windbroken, drawing a peddler's ramshackle cart, recognized the steed as Hawthorne, 12 years ago a champion two-year-old on Churchill Downs (Louisville), remembered that Hawthorne's mother was White Thorn, that White Thorn was grandmother of Epinard, crack French stallion now invading the U. S., deduced that old horse Hawthorne must be "Epinard's uncle...