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Tucson bustled with ten-gallon hats and horse talk. Cattlemen and horse breeders from all over the wide West were winding up the 1953 convention of the American Quarter Horse Association, and they found plenty of horseflesh to admire. A three-year-old named Rukin String drew his share of the talk by running the quarter-mile in 22.1 seconds-just a tenth over the world record. But the climax of Tucson's week was the cutting-horse contest, which had brought to town 34 of the best-trained ranch horses in the world...
Human Relations. In 1914, the golden age ended for Europe, and for Muriel. Paul, who fancied himself a judge of horseflesh, came home from the Derby to announce, "All the money is gone . . . The last went this afternoon." Said Muriel: "Will you have a cup of tea?" A year later, Muriel gathered up Paul Jr. and young Sanders, who had been born in London, and came back to the U.S. There she divorced Paul Sr., and settled down to make a living by interior decorating...
Stubbs's noble conception of horseflesh was based on painstaking, back-breaking labor. Born in 1724, when the study of zoology was still rudimentary, he rented an isolated farm in Lincolnshire, and bought up a series of horse cadavers. Disregarding their gamy condition, he propped them upright with a series of bars and hooks, which allowed him to adjust the position of the legs to simulate motion. Then he dissected them muscle by muscle. After 18 months of study and a set of minutely detailed drawings, his curiosity was satisfied. One result of his studies, an elaborate tome entitled...
...Manchester, the fathers' record looked good. In ten tries, they had picked three winners and four place & show horses, given out-of-the-money advice only three times. The fathers shyly admitted that the tips were provided by a kindly parishioner with a keen eye for horseflesh. "We aren't kicking, at least not yet," said one local bookie. "In fact, three of us in this office are subscribing ourselves. It's a good cause...
Flannery's horseflesh is several stables away from the stiffly noble equines of the classic English and American horse-painter schools. Flannery horses are just characters in a series of mobile sketches of racing life-from a newborn foal shakily standing in its stall to the slow circling of two-year-olds going to the post at Saratoga. His subtly patterned scenes are the work of a man who lives close to his subjects...