Word: studding
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...York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and win the 65th running of the season's juvenile classic, the Futurity...
...Mayer acquired such theatrical effects as a cymbal crash, a tympani roll, a drum stroke. In 1950, a wealthy alumnus gave Mayer a second new console, a $35,000 item that contained 1,622 parts, including 757 stop keys, 218 combinations and 248 miscellaneous gadgets (e.g., a toe-touch stud that brings on a soft stop with one kick, adds a louder one with the second and turns both off with the third...
...Dancer. He pulled up lame again, and Owner Alfred Vanderbilt finally decided to call it quits. In three years and 22 starts, the Big Grey had lost only one-the 1953 Kentucky Derby-and earned $785,240. Said Vanderbilt: "He will not race again, and will enter stud at the Sagamore Farm in Maryland next spring...
...After going hungry for five days, male dogs have a striking increase in fertility, Johns Hopkins researchers reported. This jibes with nature's way (seals and walruses do not eat before mating), but conflicts with animal-husbandry practice, which overfeeds beasts at stud. Said Dr. W. Horsley Gantt: "I see no reason to think the principle would not also apply to humans...
Died. Captain Michael Tubridy, 32, one of the world's top horsemen, former star rider of the Irish army's jumping team, who retired last January from show riding to run a stud farm; of injuries suffered in a riding accident; in Dublin...