cardigan bay was a new zealand harness racing pacer foaled 1 september 1956 .

affectionately known as " cardy " , he was the first standardbred to win us$ 1 million in prize money in north america .

he was the ninth horse worldwide to win one million dollars , ( the first eight were thoroughbreds ) .

cardigan bay won races in new zealand , australia , canada and the united states .

along with his arch-rival , american champion of the day , bret hanover , he has a legitimate claim of being one of the truly great standardbred racehorses .

cardigan bay became an overnight sensation in the united states , and appeared with dancer on the ed sullivan show as the " million dollar horse " .

cardigan bay ( horse )

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the club draws its name not simply from the fact that it is based geographically on cardigan bay , but in recognition of the horse , cardigan bay , the first standardbred to win $ 1million .
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cardigan bay and war buoy are credited with the greatest number of consecutive wins - 10 .
cardigan bay the million dollar pacer archived october 16 , 2008 , at the wayback machine .
cardigan bay and war buoy are credited with the greatest number of consecutive wins – 10 .
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in the backstretch , cardigan bay was tucked in behind overtrick . in the last 100 yards , he drew alongside of overtrick . with 50 yards to go vernon dancer , driving cardigan bay , went to the whip . the 8‐year‐old cardigan bay and the 4‐year‐old overtrick crossed the finish line together .
the world ' s first million dollar pacer , cardigan bay , wins the 1963 new zealand cup .
the new zealand post office issued a postage stamp in 1970 to recognise cardigan bay ' s achievements .
along with phar lap , cardigan bay is one of new zealand’s most famous racehorses . cardigan bay was a standardbred harness racer . in harness racing the horse pulls a two - wheeled cart , or sulky , which seats the driver . cardigan bay lived from 1956 to 1988 , and was the first standardbred horse to win more than us $ 1 million . his fame was commemorated in this 1970 new zealand stamp .
cardigan bay was foaled at mataura ( near gore ) in the south island of new zealand . as you drive into mataura from gore , there is a sign on the road proclaiming mataura as the birthplace of cardigan bay . he was a first crop foal by a leading sire , hal tryax ( usa ) , his dam colwyn bay was by josedale dictator ( usa ) . cardigan bay was a brother to thule bay and a half - brother to brides bay .
cardigan bay was a new zealand harness racing horse foaled 1 september 1956 . affectionately known as
cardy
, he was the first standardbred to win … | pinteres…
in 1964 , overtick and cardigan bay tangled in the dan patch pace and the dan patch encore . cardigan bay prevailed by the shortest of noses in the dan patch , but overtrick got his revenge in the encore .
cardigan bay was foaled at mataura ( near gore ) in the south island of new zealand . as you drive into mataura from gore , there is a sign on the road proclaiming mataura as the birthplace of cardigan bay .
that comment was prophetic . cardigan bay was indeed to become the world’s first pacer to win a million dollars .
cardigan bay appeared on television on ' ' the ed sullivan show ' ' before being flown to new zealand .
in 1964 , overtrick and cardigan bay engaged in two races : the dan patch pace and the dan patch encore . cardigan bay prevailed by the shortest of noses in the dan patch , and overtrick won the encore . overtrick also defeated cardigan bay in an earlier race in 1964 , prevailing by a neck in a mile and a half race .
cardigan bay was born in new zealand in 1956 and apart from his name , there is a loose welsh connection .
the new zealand post office issued a postage stamp in 1970 to recognise cardigan bay ' s achievements . [ 17 ]
cardigan bay was foaled at mataura in the southland region of the south island of new zealand . as you drive into mataura from gore , there is a sign on the road proclaiming mataura as the birthplace of cardigan bay . he was a first crop foal by a leading sire , hal tryax ( usa ) , his dam colwyn bay was by josedale dictator ( usa ) . cardigan bay was a brother to thule bay and a half - brother to brides bay . auckland pacing ( known in . nz as trotting ) cup was won in 1961 not 1962 .
on dec 17 , 1963 , on a blustery night at hutt park , wellington , cardigan bay raced a mile against the clock in 1 : 56 1 / 5 , the fastest ever in new zealand . a week later , stanley dancer called and asked , “what kind of a horse is this cardigan bay ? ”
the next night , a sunday , cardigan bay was a guest on the ed sullivan show , the first and only race horse to appear on that stage . under the agreement with audrey and mervyn dean , cardigan bay was shipped back to new zealand to finish his days in comfort on the land where he was foaled .
patterson did not quite agree .
sure , cardigan bay was getting to us , but what would you expect after my horse had cut out such a pace , especially the last half ?
every horse is different . cardigan bay was different because he did not believe he was a horse . i had no doubt that he had a calculating mind and the emotions of a champion . most importantly , he had a heart as big as catcher ' s mitt .
mr feelgood has something cardigan bay and lyell creek ( both geldings ) could not achieve – the opportunity to become a successful sire .
the winner of that one‐mile pace in the then track‐record time of 1 minute 58 1 / 5 seconds was cardigan bay , the greatest horse , harness or thoroughbred , from australia or new zealand . he was the first horse in harness racing to win $ 1‐million in purses .
' ' the two best horses fought it out . apmat proved his class when he went to yonkers and won the international series . i link caduceus with cardigan bay as the best pacers i ' ve seen . cardigan bay was a better stayer but caduceus more brilliant .
it ' s two straight for dancer and cardigan bay , harness racing ' s first $ 1 million earning horse . the victory allows cardigan bay to break bret hanover ' s record for career earnings . jesta hill is second , the highest finish in cup history by a mare and dancing david , original winner of the cup , is third .
cardigan bay became inter - dominion champion in 1963 but not before overcoming what was a horrific training accident in 1962 . so badly was cardigan bay injured that for a while it was touch and go for his life . he was in obvious pain and there were thoughts of putting him out of his misery . cardigan bay was nursed back to full fitness and the rest is history . what a great horse . cardy started from 24 yards and won from dusty miller and waitaki hanover .
dancer also was harness racing ' s first driver to earn more than $ 1 million in one season , in 1964 , and he drove the first horse to earn more than $ 1 million , cardigan bay . seven times his horses won horse of the year honors , another record .
here we see the late stanley dancer in the sulky behind cardigan bay , as they win the pace of the century at yonkers raceway in america .
his dam was called colwyn bay and cardigan bay ( or cardy ) and spent six months in quarantine at lord langford’s stables in bodrhyddan hall , north wales , while in transit from america to new zealand in the 1960s .
the lonely eminence of cardigan bay and bret hanover had become conspicuous before their first race , but part of the shock of that race was the revelation that bret had so formidable a companion up there . stanley dancer , who bought cardigan bay in new zealand and drove him to victory in that first meeting ( only the fourth defeat in bret ' s career ) , was asked how he would compare his horse with the great american pacers of the past .
i think bret is the greatest horse we ' ve ever produced in america ,
dancer said ,
and cardigan bay had to be good to beat him .
the result was a triumph for the southland sire hal tryax ( imp ) , who sired the first and second horses , cardigan bay and robin dundee . colwyn bay , the dam of cardigan bay , recently produced a filly foal , a full sister to the cup winner , and there is also an older filly of the same breeding . colwyn bay was a brilliant pacer herself , but unsoundness cut short her racing career . she is by josedale dictator ( imp ) from pleasure bay , by quite sure ( imp ) from helen ' s bay , by guy parrish ( imp ) from gold patch , by geo m patchen .
for every individual man who knew cardigan bay was coming , there are now 1000 who know he is leaving . old cardy could get to people real quick .
cardigan bay was an inaugural inductee into the new zealand trotting hall of fame with the immortals caduceus , harold logan , highland fling , johnny globe and ordeal .
cardigan bay was an inaugural inductee into the new zealand trotting hall of fame with the immortals caduceus , harold logan , highland fling , johnny globe and ordeal .
a month after he had reached the million dollar mark , the horse was honored at yonkers on cardigan bay day . the next evening he walked a long red carpet with dancer and made his appearance on the old popular ed sullivan tv show .
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cameron won three heats of the interdominions with him at melbourne , sydney and forbury park and also reined him to finish second to cardigan bay in the auckland cup .
from there , it was overtrick , a son of solicitor and overbid , showing the way to great credit , adora ' s dream and cardigan bay . cardigan bay , a recent purchase for $ 100 , 000 by an american syndicate , was second at the mile , which over‑ trick passed in 2 : 05 4 / 5 .
cardigan bay would be dominant in the u . s . a . for three years , beating the absolute best pacers in the country on a regular basis . he became the only horse to have defeated the three future hall of fame horses of that era—
cardigan bay , a pacer from new zealand who in 1968 became the first horse in harness racing history to win $ 1 million in purses , died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 31 last friday on puketutu island off auckland , new zealand .
by then it had become apparent that the race was to be between overtrick , the favorite , and cardigan bay , the second choice . parked out for five‐eighths of a mile , the down under pacer had to go some to catch the american horse .
foaled in 1956 in new zealand , the son of hal tryax and colwyn bay , this bay gelding rewrote the record books in his native land and australia . the pacer became the first horse to win the coveted inter - dominion championship and the two - mile new zealand cup in the same year . when news of cardigan bay ' s exploits reached america , the renowned trainer - driver stanley dancer journeyed
down under ,
finally acquiring the horse in early 1964 . cardigan bay quickly became a headliner in north america , winning thirty - seven races during a four - year span . the high point of his career was the
pace of the century
in 1966 , when he defeated three - time horse of the year bret hanover before a crowd of over 36 , 000 . cardigan bay became the first million dollar winner on september 14 , 1968 and was retired shortly thereafter . he died in 1988 in new zealand .
cardigan bay had finished his australasian racing with a score of 43 wins , nine seconds and three thirds from 67 starts worth £nz36 , 944 15s plus £a24 , 940 .
irving rudd is public relations director of the new york city off track betting corporation . he held a similar position at yonkers raceway in the glory days of cardigan bay .
cardigan bay is possibly the most well - known racehorse ever to come from new zealand . he won 80 races in all . much of his racing was done in the
his only blemish came last start at alexandra park when he finished third behind mach shard and spankem in the group one $ 100 , 000 young guns cardigan bay stakes .
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horse foaled 1 september 1956 . affectionately known as
cardy
, he was the first
john patterson , who drove the victor , said the horse started and finished physically sound .
clwb cardigan bay was formed in april 2005 , to serve as an association of standardbred owners , trainers , drivers and enthusiasts of harness racing in ceredigion and the surrounding area .
he was so badly crippled that it was touch and go whether he should be destroyed . no one thought he would race again . an australian trainer named ted greig passionately believed that cardigan bay could be saved , and so the deans entrusted the horse to his care .
* the biggest stakewinner , galloper or harness horse , ever bred in nz or australia , with a total of $ 329 , 937 , which is computed in nz currency as approximately £116 , 000 . [ cardigan bay may now be slightly ahead on this total . ]
a chartered cargo plane , which he had all to himself , deposited cardigan bay on american soil on the first day of spring , 1964 . it was prophetic . for the next five years the great nz pacing horse was destined to be the evergreen of harness racing , the hardy perennial which not even advancing old age could keep pruned for long . in the september of his years cardigan bay planted springtime in the hearts of millions of racing fans .
p t wolfenden was driving his second nz cup winner in the last three years - he drove cardigan bay in 1963 when , incidentally , robin dundee was also second to him .
bred by d todd , mataura , under whom he did his early racing , cardigan bay is a five year - old bay gelding by hal tryax from a capable pacer in colwyn bay who had her racing career cut short by unsoundness . colwyn bay is a half sister by josedale dictator to scotch girl , snow jane ( dam of slick chick ) , toucher , scotch pleasure and dorstan . cardigan bay raced last season in the interest of mr a todd , mataura , and was purchased before the present season by mrs a d dean . he has been trained and driven for all his engagements this term by the pakuranga trainer , p t wolfenden . since he began racing as a three - year - old in the 1959 - 60 season cardigan bay has won 11 races and been placed twice for £5690 15s in stakes .
cardigan bay even won a major event at addington raceway in christchurch while the grandstand was on fire . a photo of this race is considered one of the great iconic images in the history of horse racing . he also won the inter dominion pacing championship final in adelaide , australia .
cardigan bay even won a major event at addington raceway in christchurch while the grandstand was on fire . a photo of this race is considered one of the great iconic images in the history of horse racing . he also won the inter dominion pacing championship final in adelaide , australia .
listen to a commentary of cardigan bay’s triumphs in 1963 , when he won both the inter - dominion championship at adelaide , australia , and the new zealand cup at addington , christchurch .
a month after he reached the million dollar mark , it was , by formal proclamation ,
cardigan bay day
in yonkers , new york . the next evening cardigan bay walked down a long red carpet , which led into the living rooms of 20 million viewers , on the ed sullivan television show . no immigrant had ever
made it any bigger any faster
.
cardigan bay even won a major event at addington raceway in christchurch while the grandstand was on fire ( one photo of the race is considered one of the great iconic images in the history of horse racing ) . he also won the inter - dominion championship final in adelaide , australia .
the stake of the race is £3500 , but it will be possible for cardigan bay to win an additional £500 . this amount will be paid to the horse finishing in the first four and breaking false step ' s world record of 3 : 21 for a mile and five furlongs .
with peter wolfenden back in the sulky , the year 1963 was undoubtedly a most remarkable season for cardigan bay . he won the inter - dominions after four gruelling heats . in the first qualifying heat , which he won , a horse put a foot through his wheel that almost unseated wolfenden . cardigan bay also won the second qualifier easily but in the third he was unable to avoid a three - horse pile - up and somersaulted over the fallen horses . wolfenden was hurled from the sulky onto the track . even the final was not without incident . handicapped from 24 yards back , cardigan bay got up to the field but on the final turn was forced very wide by another pile up yet finished strongly enough to win setting a track record at adelaide , south australia .
correction : september 17 , 2005 , saturday an obituary on sept . 9 about stanley dancer , the harness racing champion , misstated the milestone reached in 1968 by the pacer cardigan bay . he was the first harness horse to win $ 1 million in a career , not in a year .
on the horse ' s death in 1988 , cardigan bay ' s driver stanley dancer , reflected on the gelding ' s last year of racing and said ,
at the end he was going on heart alone . . . . . what a mighty heart it must have been
.
new zealand bred pacer who was the first harness horse to win $ 1 million in north america .
april 1966 saw cardigan bay sweep all three legs of the international pacing series , the international pace , good time pace and national championship pace at yonkers raceway . it was the first time a horse had won all three legs . [ 9 ] perhaps his most famous encounter was with the great standardbred horse , bret hanover , in the pace of the century , in 1966 . cardigan bay , with stanley dancer driving , won that race in front of 45 , 000 spectators at yonkers raceway and became only one of two horses ( the other being adios vic ) up to that time to have beaten bret hanover . however , in their next encounter at roosevelt raceway , the
revenge pace ,
bret hanover reversed that result with cardigan bay third before a crowd of 37 , 000 . [ 10 ]
a record crowd of 45 , 788 watched at trainer - driver eric hurley set a swift pace with him . robin dundee ( who was checked ) and cardigan bay settled second - last and last .
and so it was in early 1962 at perth that cardigan bay , who was more of pet than a competitor for his owners , mervyn and audrey dean , came to grief in a near‐fatal accident .
in 1964 cardigan bay was sold to american interests for 100 , 000 dollars and in winning , in 1964 , two of the three international races proved to be the equal of the top american horses .
making his first appearance in free - for - all company , cardigan bay won his ninth consecutive race when he led practically throughout to win the nz free - for - all at addington on friday .
cardigan bay was bred was developed by the mataura trainer , d todd . he was raced by d todd ' s brother , mr a todd , of mataura , who sold him to mrs deans . mrs deans related how she had decided to buy a pacer and that she and her husband had followed closely the newspaper comments made on the form and performances of cardigan bay .
we were quite certain that cardigan bay would be the horse we would buy - we had never seen him - and when we read there were some northern inquiries for him , we decided there and then to buy him before anyone else did ,
she said . the champion cost mrs dean £2500 after contingencies had been met .
on the horse ' s death in 1988 , cardigan bay ' s driver stanley dancer , reflected on the gelding ' s last year of racing and said ,
at the end he was going on heart alone . . . . . what a mighty heart it must have been
. [ 16 ]
in 1970 the new zealand post office issued a postage stamp to recognize the achievements of cardinal bay .
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victoria’s angelique and fosmar beat cardigan bay into third in the third round at 15 ½ furlongs , and was obvious the new zealand champion was no certainty in the 14 - furlong £15 , 000 grand final .
cardigan bay was out for four months and when he went back to light training his pronounced limp was easily visible . nevertheless , by the time the inter - dominions of 1963 rolled around in february , cardigan bay was ready . on hand at adelaide again was president martin tananbaum of yonkers raceway with a firm invitation to mrs dean to bring the horse to the 1963 international . on the first night of the inter - dominion championships tananbaum met mrs dean and her husband , merv , near cardigan bay ' s stall .
mr tananbaum ,
said mr dean ,
speaking for my wife , anyone can have the horse beginning right now for £25 , 000 sterling ( $ 70 , 000 american currency ) , i mean
continued the husband ,
starting tonight all the purse money goes to the man who buys him .
cardigan bay was stabled at a private track at suburban cannington . while jogging lightly , a steel stay of his jog cart broke loose and caused a wheel to lock . the groom handling him was catapulted from his seat and cardigan bay was frightened he took off and careened twice around the track while horsemen watching nearby tried to flag him down . cardigan by then dashed toward his stall , slipped and fell heavily on the concrete floor . he had fractured a bone in his right hind quarter and suffered nasty cuts around the fetlocks .
stanley dancer , taking delivery of cardigan bay when he landed in new york on 22 march 1964 , told reporters : ‘i got him cheap - $ 900 , 000 cheap . this one’s worth a million . ’
picking the highlight of cardigan bay ' s career is like trying to pick the greatest cricket catch of all time - if there were 10 people on a judging panel one would no doubt get 10 different opinions .
placed in the name of dean ' s wife audrey , cardigan bay came into wolfenden ' s life when he was 26 and at a time when the track was being remodelled . when the track became available again in the new season , cardigan bay
breezed
a half in 59 in work and led wolfenden to declare
driving something else and then him is like stepping from a morris minor into a jaguar .
realising what a drawcard cardigan bay would be , the wellington tc offered £600 to break the mile record , and on a cold and blustery night cardy scorched round the four and a half furlong track in 1 : 56 1 / 5 . wolfenden claimed that but for the windy conditions , cardigan bay would had threatened adios butler ' s world record of 1 : 54 3 / 5 set at the red mile on 1960 .
one of southland ' s best known trotting personalities mr a ( ' sandy ' ) todd , of mataura , who raced the first million dollar pacer , cardigan bay , died last week . he was 77 .
his performance was all the more meritorious as he paced a little roughly for the first two furlongs and then was challenged for the lead by smokeaway , whom he quickly shook off . when tackled by scottish command in the run home it momentarily appeared as though cardigan bay was going to be hard pressed to win but 30 yards from the post trainer - driver , p t wolfenden put his whip away and cardigan bay won comfortably .
along with his arch - rival , american champion of the day , bret hanover , he has a legitimate claim of being one of the truly great standardbred racehorses . [ 2 ] cardigan bay became an overnight sensation in the united states , and appeared with dancer on the ed sullivan show as the
million dollar horse
.
after winning at forbury park in april 1961 cardigan bay was sold to merv and audrey dean of auckland for £2500 . his record at that time was 12 starts for 5 wins and 2 second places . [ 3 ]
in 1967 cardigan bay won the second ever running of the provincial cup at windsor raceway which at the time was the richest harness race in canada . [ 11 ] he also won the washington park derby in chicago .
sir henry will probably be remembered best in harness racing for giving aucklander mrs audrey dean ' s champion pacer cardigan bay a luxurious retirement at his island paradise , puketutu , in the manukau harbour . from match 1970 until cardigan bay died aged 31 in march 1988 , sir henry doted over the internationally famous gelding , who attracted thousands of tourists from around the world to see in the flesh the first pacer to win a million dollars .
i think he must be the most photographed horse in the world ,
sir henry would often proudly say .
there is one great new zealand horse that has achieved it , and that is cardigan bay in the 1960s . he won the very top races in 3 different countries ( nz cup , auckland cup ) , and in australia ( interdominions ) , and then moved to north america at the age of 8 and over the next 4 years he beat the likes of bret hanover and overtrick , and was twice us pacer of the year – there’s plenty about “cardy” on the internet , just google cardigan bay and refresh you memories of this truly great campaigner !
cardigan bay ran the mile and a quarter in 2 : 34 . 6 , a 2 : 03 . 2 mile rate . he took 32 . 8sec for his first quarter , reached the first half mile in 63 . 2 , clocked 1 : 35 . 8 for the first six furlongs and paced his first mile in 2 : 06 . 8 . cardigan bay returned 58 . 4 for his final half mile , his last quarter being run in a sizzling 27 . 4sec . he received a rousing reception on his return to the birdcage . cardigan bay ' s success was his second in the race and he was second to lordship 12 months ago .
greig constructed special slings and other contrivances that shifted the horse ' s weight from his injured hip . after a month , the slings were removed and cardigan bay , wobbling and limping , was given light walking exercises . toward the end of march , he could apparently walk without pain . his right hip had actually dropped several inches .
today , cardigan bay , 18 years old come aug . 1 if you follow the new zealand breeding calendar , or 19 by united states rules , live in retirement on the 600‐acre island of puketutu just outside of auckland .
. he was the only horse to defeat the three u . s . hall of fame horses of that era :
negotiations had already been taking place to have cardigan bay competing in that year ' s yonkers international series , but it seemed his career could be over . placed in a sling and lovingly cared for by perth trainer ted greig , a month later cardigan bay was walking without pain , although with a noticable limp . four months after the disaster he was shipped home , and in september at alexandra park he successfully resumed from 36 yards over 13 furlongs .
for a payment of $ 125 , 000 , despite the fact he had only $ us137 , 000 in earnings . cardigan bay was also
down on the hip
from a severe injury he suffered earlier in new zealand .
a few weeks later cardigan bay won his last new zealand start , taking out the two - mile pezaro memorial from 60 yards by a length over frontmarker jay ar . on to the inter - dominions around the three - furlong melbourne showgrounds , and on - hand to see cardigan bay thread his way through 11 rivals from 36 yards to win on the first night was tananbaum again , but this time with a special guest - stanley dancer . needing no more prodding , dancer offered us $ 100 , 000 ( about £36 , 000 ) and agreed to return cardigan bay home at his own expense , while tananbaum threw in a $ 30 , 000 specially chartered flight to new york .
the judges studied the photo for five minutes before posting cardigan bay as the winner . the time was 1 : 58 1 / 5 , track record . they gave the winning margin as a nose . it was more like nostril .
a son of siring sensation hal tryax ( cardigan bay’s sire ) , tactile won five derby classics in the 1962 - 63 season , the nz and great northern editions , as well as the nsw , victorian and south australian derbies .
with the headline : overtrick wins $ 50 , 000 international pace by a neck over cardigan bay ; 7–10 shot shows no sign of injury ; 35 , 128 see overtrick take 1½‐mile race in 3 : 03⅘ at yonkers—country don 3d .
cardigan bay had not actually travelled well to addington and wolfenden was then against taking him all the way to perth for the inter - dominions , but dean had other ideas and placed him under the guidance of nsw horseman bill wilkins . handicapped on 12 yards with only the brilliant nsw horse james scott behind him in the championship , cardigan bay easily won on the first two nights as did james scott , and a clash in the two - mile third round heat and the final were eagerly anticipated . it was not to be though , as in a training mishap , cardigan bay crashed to the ground back at the stables and landed on a concrete curb , completely displacing his near - hind hip . about the same time , audrey dean went into hospital for an operation and received news of the death of a relative , and wolfenden was kicked in the face by a horse , requiring surgery that put him on the sidelines for several months .
from 48 yards at 12 ½ furlongs on the second night in melbourne , cardigan bay was forced over a lot of extra ground and could manage only fourth behind south australia’s minuteman , robin dundee and the new south wales representative little maori .
cardigan bay ' s fantastic time of 2 : 59 . 8 for the last mile and a half of the allan matson handicap at the addington raceway on wednesday night , november 20 , is not only 3 . 6sec inside the world race record ( unofficial of course ) for the distance held jointly by the american pacers stephan smith ( 1961 ) and royal rick ( 1962 ) - it is also the first time in world harness history that two - minute speed has been sustained by any horse beyond a mile and a quarter - and cardigan bay also ran his last mile in 2 : 00 flat .
registered in the name of merv ' s wife audrey , cardigan bay under wolfenden became a champion , his numerous wins including the auckland cups in 1961 and 1963 , the nz cup in 1963 and the inter - dominion grand final in adelaide the same year . cardigan bay went on to further fame and fortune in america , where under stanley dancer , he became , as a 12 - year - old in 1968 , the world ' s first pacer to win a million dollars .
club officials would have every reason to be jubilant when cardigan bay ' s name appeared among the acceptors for the allan matson handicap , principal event on the inaugural night of night trotting at addington raceway . his task from 54 yards over a mile and five furlongs should not be beyond him : the main question exercising the minds of trotting enthusiasts is whether anything in front of cardigan bay is capable of making him go fast enough to lower the world record for a mile and five furlongs .
overtrick held the world record for mile at 1 : 57 1 / 5 . he had the no . 8 post while cardigan bay was in no . 7 . overtrick led at the half‐mile in 58 seconds , so fast it was scary .
reta peta , a trotter , is the only horse to have beaten the pacers in the new zealand cup two years running .
when on the following saturday night cardigan bay threaded his way from a 36 - yard handicap through a 12 - horse field to win for fun by four lengths dancer was determined more than ever to acquire cardigan bay for his syndicate , which was headed by irving w berkemeyer who also owned another great gelding - the trotter su mac lad . negotiations began early the following sunday morning , dancer was scheduled to leave for the united states at 3pm . the deal appeared to be at a standstill at the $ 100 , 000 mark until dancer , remembering the many cups and trophies , and other momentos , back in mrs dean ' s living room in auckland , sensed the deep devotion and affection she had for cardigan bay , promised to ship the horse back to her at his own expense when the gelding ' s racing days were ended . a hurried , hand - written agreement was drawn up , signed and witnessed , and dancer was on the plane headed back to america with minutes to spare .
the saucer - like two and a half furlong wayville circuit did not suit cardigan bay ' s ambling action and there were incidents aplenty during the rounds of heats , one of which put wolfenden on the deck during the third night . but ironically in the final , cardigan bay had moved around the field from 24 yards and had a clear track starting the last lap when idle raider faltered and wiped out most of the field , and he went on to down dusty miller and waitaki hanover handsomely .
cardigan bay made his usual swift beginning though and bided his time at the tail of the big field until he commenced his run around the field from the 1200m - or about the point when the crescendo began . he forged to the lead in the backstraight , but he was being stalked by tactile , handy all the way and now tracking cardigan bay into line . tactile drew up , but cardy would not be denied and went on to win by half a length like the champion he was .
her normal brilliant final spring was not forthcoming , and she and cardigan bay were fifth and sixth as angelique , new zealand’s tactile ( driven by robert cameron ) and smoke cloud ( driven by jack watts for noel simpson ) chased minuteman to the wire .
taking delivery of cardigan bay when he landed in new york in march , 1964 , dancer told reporters :
i got him cheap - $ 900 , 000 cheap . this one ' s worth a million .
just how prophetic was that comment ?
a detached holiday bungalow with extensive sea views overlooking cardigan bay . comprising of modern furnishings throughout to the highest of specifications . features include full fronted glass patio doors opening onto enclosed decked area with patio furniture . open plan living area with fully . . .
cardigan bay showed up in the united states with just $ 158 , 212 in his pockets . when he had cooled out for the last time beneath the blue and gold blanket of the stanley dancer stable at freehold raceway on the late afternoon of september 14 , 1968 , he had accumulated earnings of $ 1 , 001 , 353 and so become the first millionaire horse in standardbred history .
to set the scene further , cardigan bay had joined peter wolfenden as a late 4 - year - old , having won three straight races and five in total for mataura trainer dave todd and his brother sandy . he had won twice at three , but failed to pay a dividend on five occasions - a good sale would have to wait until todd and his driver ken balloch had knocked the edges off . this was achieved in the next season when cardigan bay was racing with a hefty price tag of £2500 .
cardigan bay ' s nine wins on end equals the winning sequence of rupee , and the hal tryax pacer requires one more win at his next appearance to equal the winning run of war bouy who won 10 races in a row before tasting defeat . just how good cardigan bay might be is difficult to assess . he beat the best pacers in commission on friday pointlessly , and he appears to be a foolproof pacer . he is already being discussed as a racecourse ' certainty ' for the auckland cup next month .
after winning four races for don hayes , vanderford joined bourne ' s stable , and won six in succession at the start of his 4 - year - old campaign , notably the methven cup off 48yds , the laing handicap from rustic lad and flying blue , the flying stakes at ashburton from robin dundee and cardigan bay , and the hannon memorial . he was the beaten favourite in the nz cup won by cardigan bay . he was never so good at five , where his only win was at forbury park .
now cardigan bay was set for the 1964 melbourne interdominions – then , perhaps , a possible sale to american interests headed by new jersey horsemen stanley dancer , now keen to try his hand with the new zealand gelding , regardless of his age and hip problem .
out of luck in the inter - dom final won by minuteman in all - the - way fashion , cardigan bay departed these shores having won 43 races with nine seconds from 67 starts - £36 , 477 in new zealand and £24 , 940 in australia .
“anyone can have this horse right now , beginning at 25 , 000 australian pounds [ $ 70 , 000 in united states currency ] , ” he said . “i mean that starting tonight , all the money the horse wins goes to the man that buys him . ”
today , an observer can tour nz and literally meet hundreds of horsemen who claim that they could have bought cardigan bay but didn ' t act quickly enough to grasp the opportunity . it was ever thus . in most of his subsequent engagements , while owned by mrs dean , cardigan bay was trained and driven by peter wolfenden , one of the top reinsmen in nz . martin tananbaum , president of yonkers raceway , who pioneered the international pace in 1960 , first held discussions in perth about inviting the gelding to the international pace held annually at yonkers raceway . the inter - dominion grand finals were about three days off and it appeared certain that every attendance and betting record at gloucester park , perth , would be toppled when the exciting cardigan bay raced for the inter - dominion championships .
a bay horse by a nz derby stakes winner in gold chief from the jack potts mare , canister , rupee was bred by his owner , j grice , who trained him throughout his career . he was driven in practically all of his races by d townley .
from 54 yards in the cup , cardigan bay conceded favouritism to the alf bourne - trained and maurice holmes - driven 4 - year - old vanderford , a son of great evander , who had won seven of eight races that spring including the ashburton flying stakes and hannon . holmes had vanderford bowling along in front most of the way , but when cardigan bay received a good cart into the race by oreti over he last lap , he pounced and won easily by a couple of lengths over robin dundee and master alan .
a month later in a warm saturday night bath of spotlights at yonkers raceway he was officially disarmed , relinquishing his racing shoes and equipment amidst pomp and ceremony and the prime minister of nz . it had been , by formal proclamation , ' cardigan bay day ' in yonkers , new york . the next evening cardigan bay walked down a long red carpet , which lead into the living rooms of 20 - million viewers , on the ed sullivan television show . no immigrant had ever ' made it ' any bigger any faster .
the result was a triumph for the billy direct horse garrison hanover , as lady nugent , douce and compromise are all by the sire .
at cannington track , a training oval some six miles outside perth , cardigan bay was put through a light jogging session by a groom attached to the stable of billy wilkins , who was ' standing in ' for peter wolfenden as trainer - driver at the time . as the lad dismounted and held the reins lightly , one of the sulky wheels suddenly crumbled and collapsed , some say due to a flat tyre . the usually easy - going cardigan bay was startled and bolted from the grounds through an open gate dragging the damaged cart behind him . he headed , terror stricken , for his stall . before anyone could could flag the great animal down it was too late . he had crashed his right hip severely against one of the walls tearing his flesh open to the bone and it looked as though a merciful end , at the hands of a veterinarian , was the only future for cardigan bay . as a matter of fact , one story current at the time was that if cardigan bay had been insured , he would have been destroyed there and then .
four months after the accident , cardigan bay was shipped back to new zealand . soon he was jogging lightly and by september , in an all‐out workout , he paced a scorching final quartermile , in 28 3 / 5 seconds and wasn ' t even breathing hard .
on feb . 20 , 1964 , in melbourne , australia , stanley dancer , who was allowed only to “look—don ' t touch cardigan bay , ” watched him in a workout and said , “i will give mrs . dean $ 100 , 000 for him . ”
a month after he reached the million dollar mark , it was , by formal proclamation ,
cardigan bay day
in yonkers , new york . the next evening cardigan bay walked down a long red carpet , which led into the living rooms of 20 million viewers , on the ed sullivan television show . no immigrant had ever
made it any bigger any faster
. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] dancer immediately retired him , and he was returned to new zealand with great fanfare with thousands at harbour awaiting his arrival .
highlight of the chimes lodge history was the arrival of cardigan bay , bred and trained by dave todd , and raced by ' sandy ' until he won his way out of southland classes . cardigan bay was then sold to mrs m b dean , of auckland , and he later went to america where , he became the first $ 1 million stake winner in trotting history . he did more to promote trotting in nz than any standardbred before of since and his name was a house - hold word throughout nz , australia and america .
tananbaum included an offer , worth $ us30 , 000 , to fly cardigan bay via special charter to america at the expense of yonkers raceway , on the condition that he did not race anywhere else after the melbourne interdominions until the international series at his track in may .
merv dean , who died at his home in auckland just before christmas aged 67 after a long illness , will long be remembered as the man who bought the great cardigan bay from the todd brothers of mataura . but there was much more to merv than just that .
in 1965 cardigan bay won the american pacing classic at hollywood park and the national pacing derby and nassau pace both at roosevelt raceway . at hollywood park he led a race over 1 1 / 16 miles helping to establish a world record for the distance of 2 . 03 2 / 5 by the winner adios vic . cardigan bay finished second after leading through the first mile in 1 . 56 . he also had a win over adios vic in 1 . 57 2 / 5 which was his fastest time in a race . [ 3 ]
we wanted to stay in scenic cardigan bay mainly so my kids could see dolphins . we booked this lovely caravan as it was great value and in a quiet location . we arrived in the blazing sun with breathtakingly beautiful views greeting us . the caravan takes . . .
last year at windsor , ontario , for example , on march 8 , despite a 22 degree temperature , he broke all kinds of records in winning the provincial cup pace . other windsor track records racked up by cardigan bay were : 1 ) most money bet on a horse , 2 ) most money bet on a single race , 3 ) most money bet on a programme , and 4 ) record crowd .
again in 1966 , another young rival , the speediest pacer ever , bret hanover , was the opposition . in their first meeting , ' the pace of the century ' at yonkers raceway , a crowd of 36 , 795 , which bet a season ' s record handle for all tracks of $ 2 , 802 , 745 , saw cardigan bay beat the great bret by a length . bret came back to whip cardigan bay in subsequent races but it is that first meeting in ' the pace of the century ' that fans still talk about .
the saga of our cardigan bay began at chimes lodge , a training and breeding farm at mataura . davey todd , a veteran trainer , had a considerable reputation for having a knack with problem horses . with his brother sandy , todd runs chimes lodge . cardigan bay was gelded while a weanling , a common practice with the todd brothers . cardigan bay did not race as a 2 - year - old . he started only eight times as a 3 - year - old , winning twice and finishing second once . he was campaigned lightly again at four , and this was largely because he was laid aside for three months at the height of the season because of a cold . in four outings , he won three times and finished second on the other occasion . one of these races , incidentally , was in saddle on january 11 , 1960 . cardigan bay finished second . this was one of the last races in saddle in the harness sport in nz . at the conclusion of his 4 - year - old season he was sold for $ 5000 to mrs audrey d dean of auckland .


pisidium artifex is a species of freshwater clam in the family sphaeriidae .

it is endemic to kenya , where it is known only from mount kenya .

it lives in water bodies at an elevation of 4300 meters .

pisidium artifex

pisidium artifex kuiper , 1960 . — mandahl - barth ( 1988 : 128 ) .
the artifex and his men had worked swiftly , perhaps with not as much agility as speed .
one of these , 6 1 / 2 feet long , and of 2 1 / 2 inches bore , manufactured in 1543 , bears the cast inscription of petrus baude gallus operis artifex .
most engineers were assigned to tiny rooms with fold - down beds , but hackworth bore the loftier title of artifex and had been a team leader on this very project , so he rated a second - class stateroom with one double bed and a fold - out for fiona .
of course , more unusual than all the rest , ( than the commission for the artifex and his assistants to paint the two dining rooms , the library , and the rich man ' s bedroom , all in greens and variations of green ) was the straw hat , such as a farmer might put on , clamped down on livius ' noble head , even here in the shade .
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international commission on zoological nomenclature . opinion 335 addition to the official list of generic names in zoology of the names of thirty - four non - marine genera of the phylum mollusca . opinions and declarations rendered by the international commission on zoological nomenclature 10 ( 2 ) , 45 - 76 ( 1955 )
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millard , v . , 1997 : null . classification of mollusca : a classification of world wide mollusca . 1 - 544 .
nomenclator zoologicus . a list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of linnaeus , 1758 to the end of 2004 . digitised by ubio from vols . 1 - 9 of neave ( ed . ) , 1939 - 1996 plus supplementary digital - only volume . urltoken ( as at 2006 ) .
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turgeon , d . d . , j . f . quinn , jr . , a . e . bogan , e . v . coan , f . g . hochberg , w . g . lyons , et al . , 1998 : common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the united states and canada : mollusks , 2nd ed . . american fisheries society special publication 26 . 526 .
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for a few minutes they sat in silent suspense , doubtful of their unexpected deliverance , and suspicious of the cruel artifices of commodus : but when at length they were assured that the tyrant was no more , they resigned themselves to all the transports of joy and indignation .


grass wonder ( japanese グラスワンダー , foaled 18 february 1995 ) is an american-bred , japanese-trained thoroughbred racehorse and sire .

in a racing career which lasted from 1997 until 2000 he won nine of his fifteen races including four grade i races .

he was the leading juvenile colt in japan in 1997 when he was unbeaten in four races , culminating in a victory in the asahi hai sansai stakes .

he missed most of his second season with injury problems but returned in autumn to win the arima kinen .

he reached his peak as a four-year-old when he won the takarazuka kinen and a second arima kinen .

he failed to win in three races in 2000 and was retired to stud .

he has had some success as a breeding stallion .

grass wonder

i can ' t help but wonder elisabeth by the grass roots on 1969 abc - dunhill lp .
i can ' t help but wonder elisabeth by the grass roots on 1969 abc - dunhill lp . - youtube
mix - i can ' t help but wonder elisabeth by the grass roots on 1969 abc - dunhill lp .
the tetrarch , native dancer . . . the list is long over the one season wonder , one circuit wonder vigors
special week ended his racing career when he met grass wonder for the second time in the arima kinen at nakayma in december . the race produced a four - way photo finish in which special week was beaten a nose by grass wonder , with t m opera o and tsurumaru tsuyoshi just behind .
grass wonder made almost $ 6 million in his 15 - race career , and he is a full brother to multiple us grade 1 winner wonder again . he was smoked by silence suzuka and el condor pasa , even with the weight concession .
the days of pearly spencer by the grass roots on 1969 abc - dunhill lp .
what love is made of by the grass roots on 1969 abc - dunhill lp .
i wonder if bill is finding the one good thing about having a hearing aid is you can turn it off .
so could well suit australian conditions and his not entirely fashionable pedigree offers a valuable outcross for many mares although his roberto ( hail to reason ) line sire screen hero ( grass wonder ) is out of a sunday silence ( halo ) mare .
, who is getting great results with mares by sunday silence and his sons ) . screen hero is doubly vulnerable in this respect : not only is he a son of grass wonder , but his dam is the sunday silence mare running heroine .
did louganis act properly ? : diving : some wonder whether he should have revealed he was hiv - positive during ' 88 games .
the next day , cutting grass around the douglas fir with the swing in it , i caught walter watching me . i killed the engine , walked over , and squatted down near where he sat in the grass . we were both silent , studying one another through the waving stalks of oxeye daisies .
nike has announced reforms in its asian factories . wonder if this means they ' re going to discontinue the
take your parents to work
day .
grass wonder ( usa ) ch . h , 1995 { 12 - c } dp = 6 - 6 - 25 - 0 - 1 ( 38 ) di = 1 . 81 cd = 0 . 42 - 15 starts , 9 wins , 1 places , 0 shows career earnings : ¥691 , 646 , 000
with a son of roberto as his sire and a daughter of danzig as his dam , temple city is bred along similar lines to that successful stallion arch and to the japanese stallion grass wonder , whose g1 japan cup - winning son screen hero is currently responsible for one of japan’s most outstanding older horses , maurice .
. born in kentucky in 1995 , grass wonder was bred at darby dan farm by john phillips , whose grandfather john galbreath had bred and raced roberto and had then stood him at the property . sold to nobuo tsunoda for $ 250 , 000 at keeneland’s september yearling sale in 1996 , grass wonder was brought to japan and did all his racing there . he enjoyed a splendid career there , winning nine of his 15 races under the care of mitsuhiro ogata . he was a grade one winner at ages two , three and four , and his haul of victories including the arima kinen in both 1998 and ’99 . descending from the swaps mare
silver hawk ' s record is certainly not short of group one performers . his best runners include the 1997 epsom derby hero benny the dip , 1996 musidora stakes heroine magnificient style , 1989 prix de diane winner lady in silver , red bishop , hawkster and japanese superstar grass wonder , who earned nearly $ 6 million in prize money .
bid at the hidaka selection sale for 8 . 4 million yen to train at jra ' s yearling training facility , and then resold to his current owner at jra ' s
breeze up sale
in april , seiun wonder began training under masazo ryoke and quickly reached the starting gate for his debut in june . the grass wonder colt broke his maiden in his second start with an overwhelming six - length margin and followed up with his first grade - race victory in the niigata nisai stakes ( 1 , 600m ) in september .
a live action scooby doo film is in the works . going to be tough casting the lovable crime fighting dog . hmmm . wonder if linda tripp ' s calendar is free ?
resuming his racing in august after an 11 - month break , the grass wonder colt was conditioned by first - season trainer yuichi shikato , who took over after susumu yano ' s retirement , and won his 2008 season debut , then followed up with two runner - up efforts before scoring his first grade race victory in the copa republica argentina ( 2 , 500m ) .
proves that gray horses are also good on the turf as this horse became great when he hit the grass . cozzene was bred and owned by hall of famer john nerud and was trained by his son jan . he won 10 races in his career of which seven came on the grass . his victory in the 1985 breeders’ cup mile earned him the 1985 eclipse award as champion turf horse .
san francisco , california , where work on the new ballpark is unearthing a lot of nineteenth century artifacts . wonder what the chances remains of strom thurmond ' s first west coast tour will surface ?
marv albert signs a five year contract with wonder bra and named co - host with susan molinari on the cbs saturday morning show . in a tearful first stab at journalistic ethics , molinari quits .
jockey tetsuzo sato guided earnestly to victory for owner koji maeda and trainer shozo sasaki . bred in japan by north hills management , the bay horse by 1999 takarazuka kinen champion grass wonder improved upon his third - place finish in last year ' s event . participants , which numbered 16 in this year ' s race , are selected by the public who made buena vista the number one selection in the field .
now the dam of three stakes winners , parlez is a granddaughter of the renowned producer halory ( halo ) , who was the dam of five graded stakes winners , including blue grass stakes winner halory hunter .
* a warm season grass likes to grow in warm weather . before it will show signs of life in the spring , the soil must warm up , and be warm for possibly as long as two weeks .
pedigree illustrates that wonder again hails tail - female through four generations of mares bred and raised on darby dan land beginning in 1960 with her fourth dam , the swaps mare soaring . through 24 starts and four seasons of racing , wonder again amassed grade one wins at ages 3 and 5 , was grade one stakes placed at age 6 , and was in the money in 15 of 24 races . with three foals of racing age on the ground , wonder again has yet to produce a foal possessing talent matching her own but it is only a matter of time before those classy bloodlines find the way back into the winner’s circle .
a drug ring was found to be operating out of the gary , indiana government building . i wonder if the feds were suspicious when everybody who received a key to the city also got a pound of cut .
san francisco , california , where washington square is nowhere near washington street . union square is not even close to union street and there ' s no beach in north beach . no wonder this town is so screwed up .
leaving behind not only a beautiful farm and superior bloodstock , galbreath’s grandson , john phillips , remains committed to this heritage . the late 80’s saw two top grade 1 winners in champion , sunshine forever , and florida derby winner and subsequent leading japanese sire , brian’s time . the 1990’s added an impressive list of grade 1 winners including japanese two year old champion colt grass wonder , and fillies and mares tribulation , plenty of grace , memories of silver and 1999 champion turf mare soaring softly . in 2004 , darby dan was represented by grade i winning turf mare wonder again . most recently , the popular multiple grade 1 winner winter memories added to the tradition of breathtaking winners . current star performers include recepta and time and motion .
seiun wonder won three out of four starts , including the 2008 two - year - old championship race , the asahi futurity stakes ( 1 , 600m ) , to earn the jra award for best two - year - old colt of 2008 .
some wonder if the national football league shouldn ' t be embarrassed by such sudden success , but realists see the precocious two - year - old toddlers for what they are : good organizations with good personnel evaluators , good coaches and good players .
special week began his third season in the grade ii american jockey club stakes at nakayama on 24 january and won from silent hunter and mejiro steed . on 21 march at hanshin he added another grade ii win when he defeated mejiro bright in the 3000 metre hanshin daishoten . the grade i spring edition of the tenno sho over the same course and distance saw special week matched against eleven opponents including mejiro bright ( winner of the race in 1998 ) , matikanefukukitaru , seiun sky , stay gold , silk justice ( arima kinen ) . special week recorded his second grade i win as he defeated mejiro bright by half a length with seiun sky two and a half lengths back in third . [ 10 ] in the takarazuka kinen over 2200 metres at hanshin on 11 july , his final start before the summer break , special week was matched against grass wonder a colt who had been the best of his generation in 1997 but missed most of the 1998 season before returning to win the arima kinen in december . special week was beaten three lengths into second place by grass wonder but finished seven lengths clear of the other ten runners .
grass wonder , who finished eight and a half lengths back in this race under just 121 pounds , returned to win a grade 1 at 13 / 1 odds next time out . this was followed by a grade 2 win , a nose defeat in a grade 1 , a three - length win in a grade 1 , a nose win in a grade 2 , and a nose win in a grade 1 . that adds up to five wins and a nose defeat in his next six starts , four of them at the grade 1 level and two at the grade 2 level .
grass pollen is implicated in most hay fever allergies in ireland and britain , as up to 90 % of people with hay fever are allergic to it . a person with hay fever may simply be allergic to grass pollen , or they may be allergic to a number of other varieties of pollen too . only allergy testing will establish what a person is actually allergic to . pollen allergies seem to relate to the climate and vegetation of the country . in scandinavia birch pollen is the most common allergen , while in parts of spain pollen from the olive tree is the most prolific cause of hay fever .
trained by susumu yano , grass wonder ran adequately in his two starts as a two - year - old in 2006 without winning . having finished fourth over 1600m at tokyo and second over 1800m at nakayama as a juvenile , then then got off the mark at the first attempt at three , winning an 1800m maiden race at nakayama early in the year . he won again over 1600m at the same course later in the winter , and then in the spring a switch from dirt to turf helped him to make further improvement . he did not win again that year , but he ran some good placings , including when second to
life responds to these interannual patterns and others as yet unknown to us . in wet years , the differences among my exlosure plots is muted , perhaps because the grass growth keeps up with herbivory . after the el nino rains , there was a great increase in hibiscus , especially in and near the black cotton glades .
yes , the jaguars are fortunate to be here . if atlanta ' s morten andersen had kicked a last - second 30 - yard field goal instead of slipping on slick grass , the jaguars would have lost their season finale and been out of the playoffs . but now they have won twice in the playoffs , impressively .
there in the meadow with walter , i was close to crying . i closed my eyes , and when i opened them again , walter invited me to sit beside him . for a long time we hunkered down there in his nest of grass and daisies , watched dragonflies and monarchs drift above us in the meadow breeze .
now i wonder at my son , your grandson . the four of us make maps of the homestead — the cabin , the meadow , the nearby woods . walter grits his teeth and draws , with a seriousness that belies his actual drawing ability , the cabin on its stilts , the miner’s orchard full of gnarled apple trees , the tall douglas fir with the board swing hanging from a high branch , the meadow grass in three shades of green . and , of course , to keep everything straight and true , he includes , as is his wont , a compass rose with a red arrow labeled n pointing to the top of the page .
shows she was bred in 1995 as a homebred for the farm by kris s . and is similarly bred , but not closely related , to wonder again as both are by roberto - line stallions and trace to soaring through their dams and granddams . bred to some of the most fashionable sires , the best runner out of
bred and owned by teruya yoshida of the shadai group , the grass wonder colt was winless in his two starts as a two - year - old but broke his maiden in his kick - off race of his three - year - old campaign and added another win two starts later before making his first grade - race attempt in the spring stakes ( 1 , 800m ) in which he finished fifth to flying apple ( usa ) . winless but steadily progressing through his 2007 season , screen hero earned a ticket to the kikuka sho but was found to have fractured his left foreleg and was turned out for the remaining season as well as the first half of 2008 .
joanna symons you can always tell when you ' ve come up against a real wonder of the world . no matter how often you ' ve seen it plastered across calendars or mouse mats , no matter how tightly it ' s girt about with trinket shops and tourists , it sweeps you off your feet and into another time and place .
after marrying soon yi , woody allen is now literally his own father - in - law . wonder if he asked himself for her hand in marriage . of course the first ring he gave her , she probably teethed on . now he ' s writing a play for her . or he could remake the old sitcom ,
father knows best
.
fusaichi pegasus had his most success as a sire with his first crop , foals of 2002 , which included roman ruler ( haskell and norfolk stakes ) and bandini ( blue grass stakes ) among 11 stakes winners from that crop . with 12 percent stakes winners from that crop , fusaichi pegasus would have been a very serious sire if only he had managed to maintain that trajectory .
malawi ( sunvil - 0208 232 9777 , urltoken ) , once , briefly , our home , represented another step back in time . there can ' t be many other places where you can spend the morning crunching across the frosty grass of a dazzling 7 , 000ft escarpment and , within three hours , be steaming gently in a riverside gamepark and eyeballing a crocodile from your hammock .
in fact , witte says , in every homestead , at every interview , she would look at the surviving children and wonder : who will make it ? which child will die ?
and you have to question what this does to the bond between mother and child . do mothers cherish the children more because they may die ? or is it harder to become attached to your child if you know you may lose him ?
in ireland , the high pollen season begins sometime in june , depending on which part of the country you happen to live . obviously , there is seasonal variation and the exact start date will depend on what the weather is like throughout march , april and may . the warmer weather in south west cork means that the grass pollen season tends to start there in mid - may . in dublin and the midlands the high season usually begins at the start of june and in north west donegal a fortnight later .
the toughest job in washington dc these strange days isn ' t the president ' s or even his battery of lawyers but rather that of the first lady whose smile is so tight you can hear the enamel cracking during extreme close ups . she ' s always been a rock next to her sliding mound of liquid bubba gel , but now she makes the rocky mountains look like everglades mud . i can ' t help but wonder how clinton ' s other paramours would have fared in her place .
sounds of earth ( jpn , h5 , by neo universe ) and gold actor ( jpn , h5 , by screen hero ) , whom toho jackal had beaten to second and third , respectively , in the kikuka sho , both have proven to be of high quality by finishing second and first , respectively , in the 2015 arima kinen ( g1 , 2 , 500m ) . sounds of earth ( jpn , h5 , by neo universe ) , after scoring just two wins out of 15 career starts , more recently has finished second in two g1 and three g2 starts , plus a close fifth by 0 . 3 second in last year’s japan cup . gold actor was sidelined for eight months following the kikuka sho but has been undefeated in all four starts since his comeback , including as a g1 winner in the 2015 arima kinen . his sire , screen hero ( jpn , by grass wonder ) , also made late but rapid improvement to claim the 2008 japan cup in his four - year - old season .
today walter and i woke early , before liz and edie , and in the mountain dark we ate peanut - butter toast , then pulled on our hiking shoes and took our poles and hiked down the mountain slope to the river . it was early , still chilly and damp in the shadows . i’d brought a thermos of coffee , and whenever we stopped , walter did jumping jacks , though he claimed the cold didn’t bother him . we hiked on , dropping down through forest , then flood grass , then boulder field and sandbar .
i knew your anger . it’s one of the strongest memories i have of you . you were bloated and bald by then , yellowed from all the chemicals the doctors were pumping through your brain . i wanted to wear to school a pair of jeans with holes in the knees , which i thought were cool . you told me to take them off . knowing , without really knowing , that you were fading from my life — you , the burden that was father , my sick and needy father — i refused . you swore at me , said i looked like trash , said if i wore such clothes i was trash and no son of yours . i ran for the safety of trees . i hid in the tall grass and took the grass in my hands and pulled until it cut the undersides of my fingers . the worst part , i think now , was that i already felt so distant from you , hadn’t felt for a long time like a son of yours . after you’d yelled yourself out , i went back in , ate my cereal , and left for school dressed the way i wanted .
who , like the aforementioned wonder again , is a phillips homebred and grade one winner on turf sired by silver hawk . bred in 1993 , memories of silver represented a third - generation darby dan bloodline tracing back through her granddam java moon by graustark . a theme of heartiness runs through many of the darby dan female families as many of its mares not only race but win in top quality races over multiple seasons . memories of silver and her best runners winter memories and la cloche were all turf graded stakes winners their final season on the track .
the colosseum in rome , which i visited this year , opened a window straight into the gorier side of the roman world . looking down into the arena , i swear i could hear the roar of lions , the baying crowd ; smell the blood and dust . seeing rome with my children was an education for all of us . we adults can try so hard to cram in all the sights that we lose out on the spirit of a place ; the children ' s wonder , and oblique view of the city was - happily - infectious .
grass pollen is the most common allergen in ireland without a doubt
, says dr paul dowding , a senior lecturer with the trinity college dublin botany department .
herb pollen is less common and tree pollen is not a great factor in ireland because it is not a heavily wooded country . the highest pollen count levels within ireland are usually found in lowland country areas , especially agricultural areas where there is likely to be a lot of grassland . levels in cities would be a half or quarter of that and in coastal areas pollen levels would be lower again
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already an accomplished star jockey in nar regional public racing before debuting under a jra license in 2006 , it wasn ' t long before yasunari iwata elevated his status in the jra . attracting increasing offers from big owners for major g1s , he responded with impressive results and boosted his purses . among his 13 grade - race wins during 2008 were four g1 titles , which he won with admire jupiter ( tenno sho spring , g1 ) , vodka ( yasuda kinen , g1 ) , black emblem ( shuka sho ) and seiun wonder ( asahi hai futurity stakes ) .
we have seen two complete population cycles of jackals . in the early 1990s they were abundant . by mid 1990s , they had all but disappeared . they returned in force after the el nino year ( 1997 - 8 ) , but have recently declined again . by 2003 / 4 , they appeared to be making a comeback . the el nino year had myriad cascading effects . first the grass grew tall and thick , raising the specter of uncontrollable bush fires . the rodents responded , and these usually shy creatures were seen daily . on their heels were the predators , the jackals and the snakes .
last summer , witte lived in a hotel with no running water , no oven for the chef to cook food , and the only phone in town . now , settled back into her life as an emory student , witte is far removed from her sojourn to kenya - but not its impact .
it gave me hands on experience . i learned first - hand about a grass roots community project . and i came away from the experience committed to continuing my education . also , i have a new understanding about why it is so important to rigorously evaluate public heal th programs and find out what really works .
he missed one start in november due to an infection in his foot before being sent to post favorite for a grade - one attempt in the asahi hai futurity stakes . despite appearing overexcited in both the paddock and the post parade prior to his first start in three and a half months , seiun wonder took a ground - saving route from stall three . from racing well off the pace , jockey yasunari iwata steered him off the rails between the third and last corner and then split horses for the final stretch , from where the big colt of more than 500 kilos burst into gear to outrun the leaders and then held off the late chargers for a head - margin victory .
by the time the sun burned away the clouds , i was already drenched in sweat and itching , spears of grass and burs stuck to my legs , a blister boiling up in the center of my hand . yet i had a luxury you didn’t : we’re here only for a season , and my work this morning at the pond wouldn’t make or break us . i was only halfway around the longer western edge of the pond , but anyway i stabbed my shovel into the mud , pulled off my hat and shirt , and dove into the green water . i surfaced and swam over to walter and edie , who proudly showed me all the wriggling , bulb - eyed newts they’d caught .
go ahead , have a drink . today is the darkest day in america . a stain on the calendar . april 15th . the day we part with our hard earned money and give it to the government . i ' m talking about perfectly good money that could be used to buy beer . and what nice little sheep we are to just give it al away .
here mr . pentagon : take three months of my take home pay and buy yourself a hammer
. you pay taxes and i pay taxes . the difference is you don ' t pay enough and i pay way too much . and i ' m sure you feel the same . even the president pays taxes . for 1997 , the clintons had a gross adjusted income of $ 569 , 511 and paid $ 91 , 964 in federal taxes and $ 19 , 745 in state and local taxes , about half of what they paid last year , mostly because hillary ' s book
it takes a village
tanked from the best seller lists like a boxer wearing trunks made out of quaalude patches . they ' re getting a refund of $ 3 , 040 from the irs and gave away $ 270 , 725 to charities but refused to say who got the contributions . i don ' t know about you but i have a feeling the national rifle association saw about as much of that money as you and i did . wonder if copies of
leaves in the grass
were tax - deductible ?
they held them up to me in their fists , the newts pawing at the rough air . then they let the newts loose and rinsed their hands — the amphibians’ skin harbors quite a poison — and i helped them snap on their life jackets . we floated for an hour in the pond with the newts , who , back in the green water , swam and dove around us like we might all be family , their wide snouts rippling the surface here and there for air . a gust of wind danced through the crowns of the nearby firs and pines . the grass bent in the wind , even broke — i heard the crackling . the wind died down then , and a phalanx of red - gold dragonflies veered above us , snapped and whirred .
michael , 15 months old , visits the locker room after the game , in the arms of his father ' s brother hank , 24 , who along with another brother , dane , 30 , spends a lot of time in vancouver babysitting his nephew and helping mike keep track of his schedule away from basketball . watching the affection mike showers on michael makes an observer wonder about mike ' s estrangement from his father , henry , a former nba player who even after his retirement spent long stretches of time away from the family . henry , now usc ' s coach , could be helping his youngest son adjust to nba life , but it ' s obvious that he won ' t have the chance to do that anytime soon . mike doesn ' t answer questions having to do with his father .
dynaformer thoroughly merited his promotion , going on to sire well over 60 group / graded winners , but even he was not guaranteed to sire an heir apparent . as many as 14 of his 23 grade i winners were fillies and two of the others–perfect drift and vergennes–were geldings . that left just seven grade i - winning sons . one , the exciting gi kentucky derby winner barbaro , met an untimely death . a second , the gi shadwell turf mile winner purim , died in 2012 , before his progeny had had much chance to prove themselves . however , he left the grade i winners twilight eclipse and undrafted among his legacy of only 218 foals . a third grade i - winning son of dynaformer , the gi blue grass s . winner brilliant speed , was killed by lightning earlier this year at the age of eight .
there is a common misunderstanding that rainfall in laikipia can be described as long rains in march - may and short rains in october - november , separated by two dry seasons . people come in the summer and wonder where all the rain is coming from . although much of the area to the south and east of laikipia does have a simple bimodal rainfall pattern , laikipia ( and many areas to the west ) also get a set of rains in july - august . these are sometimes called the lake rains or the continental rains . these blur into the long rains that preceded them , and the short rains that follow . the net result is a fairly predictable dry season from december to mid - march , and a weakly trimodal distribution of rain thereafter , with a distinct peak in april - may , and perhaps minor dips in june and september . the long - term records for mpala suggest that august is the third wettest month at mpala .
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these months we’ve spent in isolation on this mountain were my choice , my responsibility , just as our family’s life in the badlands of montana was yours . did you ever try to figure the escape paths we might have taken out ? did you wonder which way you would run with us when the river dried up ? when smoke filled the sky ? when the grasshoppers fell across the fields like a plague ? and what sudden plans did you make when you woke one morning and had your wife feel your belly , which was by then nothing but a mass of tumor ? you’d left behind a stable job with the u . s . forest service , left a pension and healthcare benefits , left access to a good hospital — where a doctor perhaps wouldn’t have misdiagnosed your cancer as ulcers for so long — left it all for a life you’d known would be hard . and it was hard , even harder than you’d reckoned . in response i have chosen a life of relative security : a good job , a house in town , decent savings . this mountain sojourn of ours is , i know , only a hint of the trial you lived and knew .
before you were a farmer , father , you were a forester , a ranger in glacier national park and the backcountry of the bob marshall wilderness , then later in mount rainier and mesa verde . and i imagine you did your share of christening seasonal creeks with the names of long - ago girlfriends or naming hard - to - cross fields of scree after disfavored politicians . you must , i am sure , have picked a rock to sit on along the ridge , one with a view of the river , and then rifled hungrily through your pack for lunch . in your later life as a farmer , the life in which i knew you , you were a man of order : the fields irrigated for so many hours three times a summer ; the lambing tally inked in blue ballpoint in spiral notebooks . i’ve seen them , you know , in the bottom - right drawer of your old roll - top desk , those tattered notebooks , their pages stained with iodine and afterbirth , the mess of delivering lambs . you favored red for the covers and always kept a pen poking out of the metal coil . as a boy i’d open them and trace with my finger the loop of your scrawl , wonder at the workings of this hand i’d only briefly known .
you can call us many things here in the golden plated state of california , but we ' re about as predictable as a rhinestone canoe in a freight elevator . our democratic gubernatorial suitors spent $ 64 million cozying up to us for tuesday ' s primary , and what do we do , but go and nominate the goober who bought us a corsage the size of a golf ball dimple . grey
and that ' s a gross exaggeration
davis , beat both al
checkbook with a smirk
checci , and jane
i am a woman dammit
harman for the honor of facing dan
darth
lungren in november ' s race for governor of us , the world ' s seventh largest economy . now , of course , the next five months is going to be easy . the two of them will stomp each other like daisies on a fifty yard line claiming that all important moderate middle as a fumble recovery and blast the other for being so far out of the mainstream , they got grass stains on their butts . according to which playbook you ' re reading , it ' ll either be mister compassion versus the steel nazi or mister responsible versus the stone hippie . or another way of putting it , for us in california , its $ 64 million down and a bajillion to go .
monica talks !
not quite
garbo talks
, but you and me and hard copy are going to have to settle for it right now . still don ' t know what ms . lewinsky said . but you can bet your ass that our boy bill is going to know exactly how many times she coughed and how many separate particles of spit expectorated from her mouth when she did cough before he testifies on august 17 . wonder if monica ' s voice is squeaky or smokey or seductive ? hard to believe we ' ve lived with this lady for so long and still haven ' t heard her speak . also hard to believe the only way to tell the difference between the jerry springer show and cbs evening news these days is dan rather doesn ' t wears glasses . hardest of all to believe is mr . starr ' s witch hunt has gone on longer than the civil war . you really got to feel sorry for the 23 men and women on the grand jury who for six months have been hearing the most salacious things possible about the leader of the free world , the leader of the leader of the free world , an intern and her best friend . wouldn ' t blame any of those grand jurors who responded to their public service by moving to the yukon interior .
summer . barefoot at a barbecue . sinfully skinny tan lines . sand under the elastic of your underwear . men obviously bereft of mirrors naked from the waist up . ice cream dripping down the sugar cone onto your fingers . lemonade so tart it makes your toes pucker . the tinny mantra of a baseball game on an am radio . it started sunday but not really . oh sure the solstice ostensibly began at 10 : 03 am edt father ' s day , when the sun was at its furthest point from the equator . solstice : from the latin for
stand still
, featured the longest day of the year . yes , this may be the astronomical beginning of the season of summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere , but we ' re already a goodly way into it ' s clammy depths . we ' ve just been experiencing that weird cuspal convergence of summer and spring : sprummer . because true summer is not a fixed date , it ' s a state of mind . an altered state of mind . as an adult , it means memorial day and the ability to wear white shoes sans impunity not to mention lawn furniture . it means fresh cut grass and the soft stirring of a hammock complete with snoring noises . it means the smell of burning flesh , both from barbecues and the shoulders of the pigmentally challenged at the beach .
- radio news while i slice potatoes , slick the cast - iron pan with bacon grease , and tuck thick pats of butter and slices of garlic inside the fish . you rise , even though you’re tired — i realize you’d be seventy - three this year — and join me on the porch , bringing the beer i left inside . while the fish grill , the oil dripping and popping in the flames , we talk politics . we argue . we might for a moment turn away from one another . you’re a southerner raised on tobacco and jim crow , a poor boy who enlisted , made good with the help of the gi bill , and missed out on most of what we think of when we say “the sixties . ” i am my mother’s son — my mother the social worker and teacher , the idealist who stored her joan baez records in the same box as your waylon jennings albums . but i’m not after a reckoning here , not by a long shot . what i want to do is turn the blackening fish , lean against the log rail by you , with you , and take a deep swallow of suds . what i want is to touch your elbow lightly and point down below the old shed , near the oak tree , where a doe and a yearling fawn slip like ghosts through the grass in the dusty light of evening .
at & t , god ' s phone service , has figured out the best way to attract young consumers who would rather chew gravel than align themselves with a corporate behemoth like ma bell ' s favorite son . wear a disguise . in offering their new dial around service , they ' re posing as a hip and fun company called lucky dog in a naked attempt to appeal to the young and anti establishment . at & t is posturing as anti establishment ? now that ' s sacrilege . isn ' t that a lot like bob dole skateboarding in cut offs ? or alan greenspan with a mohawk wading into the mosh pit of a primus concert . called
stealth branding
, this wolf in chihuahua ' s clothing stuff is nothing new . miller brewing , which is to microbrew what godzilla is to guppies has been cashing in on the small is better craze for years with a boutique label called red dog . makes you wonder if matt damon is really just tom hanks with a lot of makeup . and in the same vein , german media conglomerate bertlesmann ag is paying $ 200 million for a 50 % stake in barnesandnoble . com even though they ' re still running their own online service . i ' m not sure i get this whole competing with yourself strategy . not only do you lose even when you win , but often not only do you lose but you also lose as well . nothing stockholders love more than a lose lose situation .
today is fat tuesday . the day we cast aside restraint , and drink till we puke on our shoes and then laugh . as my dad always used to say ,
moderation in everything . including moderation
. your response to today is probably dependent on your geography . in san francisco , it ' ll be a much bigger deal than it will be in pierre , south dakota . but to be fair , california coyote festivals don ' t even begin to measure up to theirs . our stages end up littered with at best , half the shredded chicken carcasses as theirs and most of our coyotes aren ' t even quadrupeds . of course , san francisco ' s mardi gras celebration is to new orleans ' like dick york was to dick sergeant . a pale imitation at best . and i ' m sure the folks at carnaval in rio de janeiro will tell you that new orleans is the second darrin . isn ' t it funny that nobody wants to be the second darrin . i wonder when some fancy psychological think tank is going to do a highly funded useless study on the
second darrin syndrome .
dicks who fill other people ' s shoes , badly . they say that mardi gras is just a state of mind . of course so is the second darrin syndrome . all i know is , this is the only holiday we have where pure unadulterated excess is expected and encouraged . until aerick ' s day , that is . which is almost 3 whole weeks away .
don ' t get me wrong . i ' m no fan of hooters ' restaurants . ate there twice . both times i felt like i had felt someone up without their consent . and the wings were just okay . did not agree when hooters waitresses sued , saying they knew the uniforms were provocative , but didn ' t expect the sexual harassment . the hell did they expect ? true love ? macarthur genius grants ? carefully formulated queries about sub atomic particle research ? it ' s called hooters , for crum ' s sake . it might as well be
tits r us
with a giant nipple on the backwards
r
. oh yeah , the logo is owl eyes .
owl eyes
capable of lactation . now a federal appeals court is considering the case of 4 chicago guys whose applications for waiter positions were turned down . i ' m thinking , if guys with really tight buns who looked good in cut off t shirts filled out applications , they might have been hired . some battles are worth going down for . this case rates a . 0001 on that list . do we really want to set a precedent allowing dr . ruth westheimer to file a discrimination suit for being denied the opportunity to start as chicago bulls point guard ? does anybody foresee a grass roots campaign petitioning playgirl on behalf of ernest borgnine ' s bid for a photo spread ? next thing you know , michael bolton is going to demand grammy award accreditation in the male singer category . does crowbarring the lid off of pandora ' s box have any meaning here ?
as a public service , i watched the impeachment hearings so that you didn ' t have to . and i got to be honest here . you owe me money . oh , it was riveting television . a lot like listening to golf on the radio in mandarin . like watching varnish harden on a closet baseboard by a ten watt light bulb . i don ' t mean to say kenneth starr was boring but his own staff was nodding off behind him . he has to be the whitest human on the face of the planet . beyond white . he ' s translucent . a man to whom the term
pasty
is but a dream . envious of diaphanous . and it ' s an absolute wonder how he ' s able to be so incredibly patient with us . because we are so stupid . don ' t we get it ? my god , it ' s like trying to explain quantum physics to a rabbit hutch . not only did the man lie , but then he lied about lying . yeah , sure , maybe his staff intimidated monica lewinsky by a threat of 27 years in jail if she tried to talk to her lawyer . he was just following normal prosecutorial procedure . and sure , he can ' t remember a lot of stuff . so what ? didn ' t clinton use the same ruse ? and don ' t give me that birds of a feather crap , there ' s a big difference between the two of them . it ' s so obvious . starr is on the side of right .
we tried everything to get him out . we banged on the wheel well with a lug wrench so loudly that it would have deafened an animal that actually had ears . we poked it with sticks that were uncomfortably short , but it just retreated deeper . we even poured petrol on it . nothing worked . i figured i had a couple of choices . i could leave the vehicle there and hope that when i came back in a few hours , the snake had left . but that seemed to give the snake too much credit . instead , i decided to drive off . perhaps the snake would drop off or be shredded by the axle . ( its amazing how your concern for animals declines when there is a puff adder in your wheel well . ) i had two unsettling images . the first was of taking the snake all the way home and inadvertently delivering it to my five - year - old son ' s backyard . i had decided that i would park a kilometer away , and walk the rest . my other image was even more disturbing . old land rovers are miracles of low - tech engineering , and i could not be sure that the puff adder could not find a way from the wheel well into the cab . i imagined driving along and feeling the dry coarse rasp of its scales against my leg just before the lightning strike . i searched the car , and found no obvious route , but was little reassured . i finally did just drive off , with another vehicle spotting behind . sure enough , the puff adder was flung off within the first couple of hundred meters , and slithered off into the long grass .
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