Word: studded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irony of horse racing that its champions-unlike any other great athletes-are worth more after they retire than at the peak of their form. When they retire they go to stud, which means that they are mated to 30 or 35 high-class mares every spring, in the hope that they will reproduce their own good qualities in their offspring...
...intense is the competition among breeders to produce superior young horses that a good stud horse, such as Secretariat shows every promise of becoming, is worth almost any sum one cares to pull out of a hat. Secretariat's value in stud was set a few months ago at just over $6,000,000-a price arrived at by finding that 32 people were willing to pay $190,000 each, even before he won as a three-year-old, for the privilege of being able to breed one mare to him a year for the rest of his life...
...rider of show horses since her childhood in Pelham Manor, N.Y. After Smith College and a stint as a Red Cross "donut dolly" in France and Germany during World War II, she entered the Columbia Graduate School of Business. The training, says the regally attractive president of Meadow Stud, Inc., "gives me confidence in running my family's business. Looking at a balance sheet doesn't scare...
Each entrant posts $10,000 and is expected to play until one man has won everything. The game, called "hold 'em," is unfamiliar to most kitchen-table poker nuts-a variation of seven-card stud in which each player is dealt two cards face down. Five cards are then dealt face up in the center of the table as a "community pile." The winner must make the best high hand he can out of his two hole cards and three from the community pile...
Hunt Hall, which will fall beneath a wrecking ball sometime later this spring, now houses much of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department's film program. Robert G. Gardner '48, acting chairman of the Vis Stud Department, said that the building's current facilities will be moved to nearby Sever Hall...