Word: horseflesh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collected a hockey team, collected a football team, collected race horses, collected Rolls-Royces and five residences and a private jet and well-placed friends -- collected, all told, a worldwide reputation as an expert in antiquities, a nice guy, a canny businessman and a fine judge of athletes and horseflesh...
...last week that Brach had been romanced by a horse trader who defrauded her of hundreds of thousands of dollars and had her killed when she threatened to expose him. The long inquiry into her disappearance broadened when one contact led to another in the silky world of expensive horseflesh, and stories began to emerge of heavily insured animals that were clubbed, electrocuted and burned alive. The man responsible for the death of Brach, according to authorities, was just one part of a big, sorry picture involving prominent horse owners, trainers, riders and veterinarians. In all, 23 people were indicted...
...outran Arazi the French wonder horse and the rest of a field of 16 in a dogged stretch run to take the classic at Churchill Downs. Arazi folded after a spurt coming out of the backstretch and finished eighth, ending the myth that he represented a quantum leap in horseflesh...