Word: stallions
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...have offspring. Because they are the hybrid, infertile offspring of a mare and a jackass, race suicide is as involuntary among mules as old-fashioned families among rabbits. When Nickolaas Jecobus Vermaak, of Natal, South Africa, announced recently that his mare mule had thrown a "colt" sired by a stallion, neighboring farmers smiled incredulously. But he had rightly trusted his mule-sense. Mule-wise Dr. John Quinlan dashed over from the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, confirmed his guess...
...many odd chemicals Heeren has been offered, the most unusual was one which its inventor claimed would give mankind eternal life. One of the most recent requests was for stallion's urine...
...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
Barbara's turn lasted nearly 20 years while Jim, as a Hollywood writer, galloped downhill from glory to glory. Barbara, at length, began to enjoy herself with the one really spurious character in the book, an opportunistic stallion of a Russian painter, whose sudden death landed her in a shrewdly described sanatorium. There she learned enough about herself and her husband to win the reader's sympathy...
Mucho Gusto was no Whirlaway. But he will long be remembered as one of the truly remarkable thoroughbreds of the U.S. turf. Son of a castoff mare named Sweetheart Time and a stallion that had been sold without pedigree at the Lexington stockyards, he was reared in a small grassless paddock behind the Latonia race track. His owner, the track superintendent, sent him out to earn his oats in cheap claiming races.* The biggest purse he ever won was $5,000. Nevertheless, when his name was finally scratched last week, Mucho Gusto's record read: 63 victories...