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Pippin must have felt that she had earned a life of leisure at home in New Jersey. When she was retired in 1932, the Moores imported a great Scottish stallion, Ophelius, as a stud. Pippin would have nothing to do with the old horse. (Later breeding with an American stud produced one foal, but it was never shown.) So Pippin lived out her years on the wooded acres of Seaton Hackney Farm-alert, lovely, always a pleasure to watch working in harness. Last week, at 36 (the equivalent of more than 100 years in a human), she developed a serious...
...blood line, and his father's death is somehow symbolically salvaged by the birth of a perfect colt. A second marriage of his own turns to ashes when he discovers that his wife is his neighbor's castoff doxy. Lonely and alone, he rides Chief, the young stallion, deeper into his estate where he discovers a pantherish moonshiner named Aaron McCool who echoes the sentiments that Duncan feels: "They got a law for everything now-hunting, fishing, planting crops. Spew them out like buckshot. A man's got to learn how to duck, nowadays, and roll hisself...
...Wolfe's attachments: first, his passionate onslaught; then his impatience on achieving (or failing to achieve) success; finally, his fairly brutal and exhaustively documented disillusion. Like many young men, Wolfe talked longingly of marriage until it seemed possible-then he was off and away like a roweled stallion...
...huge, black-bearded Sir Bhupindar Singh, autocrat of the princely State of Patiala, set out for France to mount a blooded stallion and lead his own private army of fighting Sikhs against the Kaiser's Germans in World War I. A princely spender even in the days when spending came easily to India's princes, Patiala's Maharajah was an enthusiastic cricketer and polo player as well, and his enthusiasm for the hunt was such that he was forced to import tigers by the dozen from neighboring states to eke out his own rapidly dwindling stock...
...suits to fulfill his ceremonial and battle functions. His armorers replaced the earlier painted decorations by designs etched with acid, a technique used on armor long before it became an artist's medium. On his jousting armor, they added elaborate horned devices and feathered plumes, cushioning his stallion with heavy velvet "peytrels," i.e., chest protectors, and bedecking his lances with ribbons...