Word: stud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Estes Kefauver has no notion that all gambling can or should be prohibited. He likes a quiet game of stud poker himself. And most U.S. citizens would hate to give up the right to lose-or the hope of winning-a fast buck. But it would be nice if Estes Kefauver could arrange to have it run by a nicer set of fellows...
...Named for the town of Lipizza, near Trieste, onetime site of the old Habsburg stud farm...
...question whether the colt could even be saved for stud duty. Middle-ground soon indicated his intention: he learned to lie down and get up without using the injured leg (now in a cast). Said Trainer Hirsch: "He's so sensible, I'm pretty sure he'll make...
There is one simple explanation of his success: instead of running the legs off his two-year-olds, he can afford to race them sparingly, then bring them up to the longer, richer races for three-year-olds & up. At his two stud farms in France, Boussac breeds top race horses by mating successful stallions (like Tourbillon) with proven brood mares (like Astronomie). He has also tried some daring experiments in inbreeding. One was to mate a full brother and sister. The result was Coronation, one of the meanest-tempered horses ever to kick a groom, but winner of last...
...rare vacations, hard-working Marcel Boussac visited the U.S. In Kentucky's Blue Grass country, he saw Calumet Farm's famed Whirlaway, the 1941 triple crown winner. Said Boussac: "C'est pour moi" This summer, he completed a deal to lease Whirlaway for a three-year stud assignment in France...