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...Horseflesh. Bringing buyer and seller together is the job of white-haired Humphrey Finney, 58. who rules Fasig-Tipton Co., an $8,500,000-a-year horse-trading enterprise that extends from Saratoga to stud farms in England. France, Australia and South America. After 24 years as an auctioneer and "pitchman." British-born Finney knows as much as any man about the cash value of good horseflesh-and about the strange habits of the bidder. Finney scornfully tolerates parvenus whose extravagantly high offers make no horse sense, pointedly admonishes bidders when he thinks the offers...
...controversy many times in its 250-year history. It is the best-looking sheep, the kind that catch the judge's eye at shows, that are most likely to be carriers of scrapie. They have unusually powerful muscle development while young, so they are soon bid in as stud rams. Only in middle life (around 3½ years) do the fatal symptoms develop: enfeebled muscles, itching, the shakes...
...playful, 950-lb. colt that cost Trainer-Owner (with his wife) Jack Price only $400 in stud fees, Carry Back already has earned $739,068-more than any other horse his age in racing history. He has won at nearly every distance from three furlongs to a mile and three-sixteenths, on every kind of track, under every conceivable condition except snow. He took the Florida Derby in the mud, the Garden State Stakes in slop, the Kentucky Derby on an offtrack, and the Preakness on a fast, cuppy (i.e., crumbly) surface. Although he holds the five-furlong track record...
...case of Dale ("Cowboy") Morris, 36, serving a twelve-year sentence for manslaughter. In Parchman, Morris had behaved himself and become a trusty; he also displayed considerable interest in furthering Warden Jones's reform program. Back at Fort Smith, Ark., he told Jones, he owned a fine stud horse whose services he would gladly contribute to Parchman's animal farm. With written permission from Governor Barnett, Jones sent Morris, along with two guards, off to fetch the horse. The guards and the horse came back. Morris didn't, and not until last week was he captured...
...rules of thoroughbred racing, the tiny, long-tailed brown colt did not belong on the same track with the nation's best three-year-olds. His sire, Saggy, was an undistinguished racer whose stud fee was only $400 and whose sole claim to fame was that he had once beaten Citation. His dam, Joppy, never won at all, and sold for $300-$150 in cash, the rest an unpaid $150 board bill. Yet, as he paraded to the post for the 87th Kentucky Derby last week, Carry Back already had earned $492,368, was up on the tote board...