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...news that the 1981 and 1984 Horse of the Year is in training again at Hollywood Park and will soon be back on the track. The change of heart apparently came last month after John Henry, 11, showed a hankering to race again during a visit to Kentucky's Keeneland race- course. "We think he enjoys it," says Trainer Ron McAnally. Assured by doctors that the gelding's leg was fully healed, McAnally says it will be at least three months before John Henry can race again. Meanwhile, McAnally's immediate job is to get the champ back in shape...
Hayward did not purchase her for millions of dollars at the Keeneland yearling sales in Kentucky. Mating the old family mare, Better Queen, to a vagabond called Charlie Coast, Hayward bred Concession in the backyard at Nissequogue, N.Y., weaned her, broke her and mucked stalls for $6 an hour to keep her at Belmont. When the Jockey Club rejected the grand name Hayward first submitted, Royal Prerogative, Katrina and her leggy bay conceded their plainness with grace and humor. Concession would have made it to the races this month...
What Thompson saw as the cultural disassociation of the traditional Derby from its contemporary setting has now become an economic disjuncture as well. Two years ago a yearling, completely untrained and untried, was sold for--no, I'm not fibbing--$10.2 million at the annual Select Yearling Sale at Keeneland Racetrack in Lexington, breaking all known records...
...step up to the $250 window and bet a bundle at Keeneland, the racecourse in Lexington, Ky. Nor did she twirl any lariats when she visited a splendid cowboy supply shop in Sheridan, Wyo. (pop. 15,146), or shout "Yippee-yi-o-ay-yay" at her home away from home on the range. Nonetheless, to the eager people who got a glimpse of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and Defender of the Faith, during her trip through the American heartland last week, her mere presence was showy enough. "She's approachable," marveled Bud Precise, a Methodist minister...
Thursday was a day at the races. An unusually big weekday crowd (12,666) came to Keeneland to watch her and the horses. "She's darling," pronounced Lori Wykstra, a retired nurse. "I didn't see anything dowdy about her." Inside the wood-paneled Keeneland pavilion, the Queen watched a mock yearling sale-cum-Thoroughbred quiz show, all staged for her amusement: the M.C. described only the horses' pedigrees, while the visitor and her entourage guessed at the identity of each animal. Later, mingling a bit with the groundlings in the grandstand after the $100,000 Queen...