Stud Adventures in Breeding

by Conley, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781582341842
• ISBN10: 1582341842
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

The most expensive thirty seconds in sports. Every year, on Valentine's Day, the great Thoroughbred farms open their breeding sheds and begin their primary business. For the next one hundred and fifty days, the cries of stallions and the vigorous encouragement of their handlers echo through breeding country, from the gentle hills of Kentucky to the rich valleys of California. First appearing as an article inThe New Yorker, Stud takes you into this strange and seductive world. We move from Lexington's Overbrook Farm, where the world's leading sire, Storm Cat, a lightly raced eighteen-year-old, brings in around thirty million dollars a year; to the auction halls, where sheiks and bookies (known more casually as the Doobie Brothers and the Boys) bid millions for Storm Cat's well-bred offspring. We visit Three Chimneys, where the twenty-seven-year-old Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, a senior citizen by equine standards, makes a rousing return to active duty after spinal surgery, and stroll through Running Horse Farm, on the banks of the Rio Grande, where a nearly unmanageable colt, Devil Begone, has found peace and prosperity servicing desert mares like Patty O'Furniture. Cheap stud, top stud, old stud, wild stud, from the Hall of Fame horse to the harem stallion with his feral herd,Studlooks at intimate acts in idyllic settings (and the billion-dollar business behind them), providing a voyeuristic glimpse of just how human the equine world can be.

Author Biography

Kevin Conley is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His writing has appeared in Details, US Weekly, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Sports Illustrated. He lives in New York.

Table of Contents

A Stud's Life	1	(10)
Bidding Wars	11	(12)
From Kazakhstan to the Breeders' Cup	23	(10)
The Little Baldhead Guy and the Black Guy	33	(10)
Triple Crown Winner in Winter	43	(10)
The Old Stud Returns	53	(16)
Young Stud Enters the Family Business	69	(20)
The Maiden Run	89	(16)
A Mare in Foal	105	(12)
Stud in a Box	117	(18)
Popes in the Breeding Shed	135	(14)
Horse Sex: The Conservative View	149	(14)
California Stud	163	(14)
The Eloquent Stud	177	(10)
New Mexico Stud	187	(8)
Stud in the Wild: The Harem Stallion	195

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