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Meanwhile, Rube the Great (a fine name for a prospective Derby winner) charged past the field to win by five easy lengths. Capital Asset, Secretariat's half brother, and Capito, half brother to Riva Ridge, both suffered from an acute lack of speed in the race, and were never in contention...
...Like Riva Ridge, winner of last year's Belmont Stakes as well as the Run for the Roses, Secretariat was raised in the lap of equine luxury at The Meadow, a rolling, tree-shaded retreat in Doswell, Va., with a century-old mansion surrounded by stables, swimming pool, tennis courts and a cemetery for thoroughbreds. Penny Tweedy, 51, inherited the 2,600-acre farm from her father Christopher Chenery, the public utilities magnate who founded the stable. The wife of John Tweedy, executive vice president of The Oil Shale Corp., and the mother of four, Mrs. Tweedy has been...
...jock taking orders from people who didn't know anything about their horses." At 61, Laurin says that "I've no thought of retirement." He is in fact looking enthusiastically to the future. "I've got a half brother to Secretariat and a half brother to Riva Ridge. They are two-year-olds. As God is my judge, either one-or both-might be better than Secretariat...
...Laurin reportedly was on the verge of retiring to his native Quebec in 1971 when Tweedy hired him "on an interim basis" to replace his son, Roger, who had moved to the stable owned by Ogden Phipps. The elder Laurin promptly produced the stable's first Derby winner, Riva Ridge, which took last season's Belmont Stakes as well...
Hiroshima Mon Amour. One of the earliest and most important films of the French New Wave. Alain Resnais's film begins with a French actress who falls in love with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima. The associations of love and war provoke a dislocation of memory and time. Emmanuele Riva brings forth a tremendous range of emotion, which is very evocative even on a first viewing, before subtle complexities begin to fall into place...