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Such success at the track sharpened Butcher Auteroche's appetite for live horseflesh. Last month he spotted another likely winner: a neurotic chestnut trotter named Fabliau, given to temper tantrums and the quaint habit of kicking his racing rig to pieces. After paying 80,000 francs for the horse, Auteroche spared him from the butcher's pistol, had him gelded instead. "The operation," he says proudly, "was a complete success. Fabliau is now so gentle he's a household pet. For company we've let him have a cow as a stable mate. I think...
...Lexington, the nation's top three-year-old trotter, Scott Frost, winner of the Hambletonian and Yonkers Futurity, came on, after losing the first heat, to win the $62,702 Kentucky Futurity...
...Most authorities, e.g., the U.S. Trotting Association and Blood-Horse, doubt that standardbreds are more populous than thoroughbreds. But for a well-bred example of Reader Koch's favorite breed, the three-year-old trotter and Hambletonian Winner Scott Frost...
...Roosevelt Raceway, N.Y., the Arden Homestead Stable's Florican, a six-year-old trotter with nothing to show for eight previous starts this year, went as a 15-to-1 shot into the invitational $25,000 American Trotting Championship. When the mile-and-a-quarter trot was over, Florican had not only picked up a $12,500 winner's purse but had also smashed the world mark for the distance by more than four seconds with a time...
...Hoot Mon's forebear was Hambletonian X, ancestor of almost every modern U.S. trotter and pacer. In 24 seasons, he got 1,331 foals, bringing nearly $200,000 in stud fees to his owner, a onetime farm hand named William Rysdyk, who bought him for $125. Hambletonian (after whom the race is named) in turn was sired by Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months...