Word: stallions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away $6,000. But veteran horsemen could not resist a tsk-tsk or two when Cincinnati Industrialist Lloyd Miller laid out that sum for a thoroughbred filly at the 1966 yearling auctions in Keeneland, Ky. The youngster's sire, Persian Road II, was so poorly regarded as a stallion that he later sold for only $6,000. Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot. The filly herself was more the size of a Shetland pony than a race horse and the only thing remarkable about her was her temper...
...acknowledged as the most adroit namesman in racing is Millionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 55, whose past coups include Crashing Bore (by Social Climber, out of Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races are run: Native Dancer. Trying as always to combine ancestry and euphony, Vanderbilt has concocted the following names for his current crop of two-year-olds...
...only in his very first race were Native Dancer's odds higher than 9 to 10. Retired in 1954 to Vanderbilt's Sagamore Farm in Maryland, the steel-grey horse gradually turned snow-white. He commanded a stud fee of $20,000, highest of any individually owned stallion, and sired 231 offspring who so far have earned more than $4,000,000. One of his grandsons, Northern Dancer, won the Kentucky Derby in 1964; one of his sons, Kauai King, won the Derby and the Preakness in 1966. This summer, at the Saratoga yearling sale, nine...
...entitles its own er to one stud service per year-Phipps will retain 16 shares himself, has sold the remaining 16 to other breeders at $150,000 apiece. Total worth of the syndicate: $4,800,000, making Buckpasser, who has yet to father his first foal, the highest-priced stallion in history...
Richards still lives in La Verne, keeps physically fit by jogging five miles a day, exercising on his backyard trampoline or riding his palomino stallion Sun Up. The garden of his $50,000 ranch-style home is equipped with a pole-vaulting rig, and Richards claims he can still clear his best competition height of 15 ft. 6 in. He also has other interests. He owns an 8,000-acre ranch in Colorado and a film studio-an abandoned Methodist church-in La Verne...