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...holes, need its hooves trimmed, walk with a short gait, have to be milked out to prevent caked udder, or drop its calf one hour after the 42-day calving period, it is yanked out and sold for slaughter. The same end awaits a bull that has trouble at stud or a calf that is wild or too lean. Unlike many breeders, Lasater cares nothing about how the cow looks. Says Lasater: "Any breeder who gives his cows a second chance just doesn't give himself an even break. Survival of the fittest goes all the way here." Although...
...Sealyham. The judge's vote made Wilber the first toy dog ever to win the high award. He may have looked like a useless household ornament, but to his owner, Long Island Dog Breeder Bertha Smith, he is a practical animal indeed. Said she proudly: "Wilber's stud fee will jump from...
...Horses once owned by the late sportsman. William Woodward Jr., continued to sell for astonishing prices. After buying 39 of the Belair Stud thoroughbreds for $410,000, Miss Mildred Woolwine and her partners resold the lot at Keeneland, Ky. for a 125% profit. With Segula, dam of Nashua, bringing a record auction price for a U.S. broodmare ($126,000), Kentucky Horsewoman Woolwine and her friends collected a total of $924,100. Nashua's sire, Nasrullah, also proved that he was worth a pretty penny. A syndicate headed by Kentucky's Thoroughbred Breeder A. B. ("Bull") Hancock paid...
Pollard's leg failed to heal properly, and no one thought he would ever ride again. But Seabiscuit had one more race coming up before going to stud for good-the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap-and Pollard was determined to ride him. Gimpy leg and all, he got the mount. Seabiscuit, too, had a bad leg. To Pollard, that made everything all right. "Pops and I have got four good legs between us," he cracked...
...kind of corner-cutting that the inspector was guilty of is not likely to happen again. New rules now require that a cylinder that has had stud trouble must be mutilated so that it cannot be used again without a trip to the factory for careful rehabilitation. When the report on Flight 476 is circulated through airline bases, inspectors will think twice before cutting corners. But the CAB's detectives will not relax their vigilance. New airplanes have new weaknesses, which must be found and corrected. New accidents, even though fewer in number, will bring new problems...