Word: bardstown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turfdom's grand old veterans, Calumet Farm's seven-year-old Bardstown, responded to the urging of Jockey Steve Brooks, survived a foul claim to win the $137,600 Widener Handicap at Florida's Hialeah Park for the second time (the first...
...Late-lingering worries that the blood clot that almost killed Summer Tan as a two-year-old might have had lasting effects were lost when Mrs. John Galbreath's great bay horse galloped down the stretch at Hialeah to put away Calumet Farms's Bardstown by three lengths and win the $60,900 McLennan Handicap...
...Even when roads had been so improved that Dr. Greenwell could make calls by car, many of his patients had to be treated in their out-of-the-way homes because there was no hospital near by. Not until 1951 did Dr. Greenwell succeed in getting a hospital at Bardstown, which now serves the district...
...Bardstown knew their legendary history: in 1798, while living in Havana, Father Benedict Joseph Flaget, future Bishop of Bardstown, befriended France's exiled Prince Louis Philippe. Years later, when Louis Philippe became King of France, he remembered the kindness, sent the paintings to the bishop for Bardstown's new cathedral...
...Bardstown could place no exact value on the stolen paintings, could not even prove that they were the authentic masterpieces that local tradition holds them to be. But they had been a treasured part of St. Joseph's, and last week the parishioners prayed for their return. When there was no word, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. James H. Willett, St. Joseph's pastor, sent an open message to the thieves: "We are praying that you will realize that you have stolen from the house of God, and if you will only return the paintings, we will pray that...