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Article: OVER HILL AND DALE WITH CALAMITOUS CALUMET.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 12, 1994
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Byline: LUCINDA FLEESON
A bad feeling led the night groom to check the stallion barn at Calumet Farm one chilly November evening in 1990. As he approached the stall of Alydar, the farm's superstar stud, he saw that the magnificent chestnut was dark with sweat. Blood spattered the straw.
``Alydar was holding his right rear leg off the ground, the last eight inches or so dangling loosely and a sliver of white bone showing through the dark skin.''
So begins, in gruesome detail, Ann Hagedorn Auerbach's ``Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty.'' Despite heroic veterinary efforts, Alydar ...