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- From: kloomis@cco.caltech.edu (Kate E. Loomis)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Re: Horsey DinnerTheatres, what I saw
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 23:13:04 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- jespah@carson.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt) writes:
-
- >In article <92322.29954.6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> 6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
- >>Speaking of Walter Farley and the Black Stallion books, has anyone else
- >>ever wondered how the heck they got an Arabian Stallion in the Kentucky
- >>Derby? ;-) Aw, artistic license. Of course, I think Walter was only 17
- >>when he wrote his first book in the late 30's. Great stuff though!
-
- >Well, let's see, the Black Stallion himself was described as being "too
- >big to be pure Arab" in the book. Also, not only wasn't he a registered
- >Thoroughbred, but he didn't have any Arabian papers either since he was
- >essentially "found" loose in the ocean, and his handlers all drowned. In
- >the book they said something like "In a match race, any horse can run
- >whether or not they have papers," and *luckily* there just *happened* to
- >be a match race between "Cyclone from the East and Sun Raider from the West!!"
- >(I love that phrase!) It wasn't the Kentucky Derby. (Though I think the
- >Black's filly, Black Minx, won the Derby in some later book. Or was that
- >Satan, the Black's colt?) ... Does anyone know if that's true about
- >match races, or did Farley just make it up for the book? He certainly
-
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- >Kathleen
-
- I'm pretty sure that match races at least _used_ to occur in real life.
- Didn't Seabiscuit participate in some fancy, wildly hyped race at one
- point in his life? I thought Ruffian died in a match race. I haven't
- really heard of them anymore - there is so much big money in racing
- that match races aren't held anymore?
-
- Kate
-