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...masked and waving guns. Fitzgerald's wife and five of his children were herded together and locked in a back room. Fitzgerald, 55, head groom at nearby Ballymany Thoroughbred stud farm, was ordered to lead the gunmen to the stable of a certain five-year-old bay stallion...
...months of standing for a different brood mare every other day. Yet allowing him outdoors in the winter cold would be risky for the horse and horsenapers. His coat could be dyed: Shergar has white feet and a striking white blaze running the length of his face. But the stallion also has an unusual and unalterable amount of white in the left eye. Declared the daily Irish Independent: "At least one-third of Ireland would know him on sight...
...core of his operation is a first-rate staff. Irish Trainer Vincent O'Brien, 65, for instance, is one of those souls who commune with Thoroughbreds somewhere beyond speech. O'Brien's canny ways brought the team its first big season in 1977: the $200,000 stallion The Minstrel won four major European races and was syndicated at $9 million. Pat Hogan is Sangster's "salt of the peat" conformation expert, which means he specializes in assessing the look of a horse. The instinctual Hogan once told Sangster to spend $200,000 on an undistinguished-seeming...
...horse must still win races to acquire value. But the big payoff is now in the breeding barn. In the '50s a horse who won $1 million in purses was worth $1 million as a stallion. Today a million-dollar winner is worth $20 million at stud. One outstanding example is Northern Dancer, whose offspring Sangster often buys. Almost gelded because of his questionable conformation and rank temperament, the 1964 Kentucky Derby winner is now the world's greatest living superstud: 85 of his progeny (one in five) are stakes winners. His going rate...
...Moscow, three horses with even longer pedigrees arrived from New York in a far different but no less intriguing deal that will bring three Soviet horses to the U.S. The object: to improve the breed on both sides of the Atlantic. The animals, a stallion and a mare born in the Bronx Zoo and a mare from San Diego's zoo, are rare Przewalski's horses. Discovered in Mongolia a century ago by the Polish-born Russian army colonel for whom they are named, Equus przewalskii is the only truly wild, totally undomesticated horse still left on earth...