Posted on 01/19/2005 9:51:40 AM PST by Mo1
LOL. Not really. I was in Atlanta for shopping, but had to get out of town because of weather. They say I can't do ice storms. :)Sooo, here I am. :) So cold and raining. Brrrrrrrrr.
I reneg.
Snakeses are always up to no good.......
Just kidding......
Here's more. :)
Alydar, best remembered for finishing second to Affirmed in all three 1978 Triple Crown races, was horse racing’s golden goose. By the time his son Alysheba won the 1987 Kentucky Derby, he was the richest sire in history and Calumet Farm, the legendary Kentucky stable, was sending him to the breeding shed more than 200 times a year—at $250,000 a pop. But Calumet Farms was also hemorrhaging money—inexplicably $100 million in debt by 1990.
Their most prized possession, with $36.5 million worth of insurance policies on his head: Alydar.
“That horse didn’t slip on a bar of soap,” Assistant U.S. Attorney James Powers now says. “All the evidence says his death was no accident.”
A former employee’s wife testified that Calumet’s president, J.T. Lundy, while discussing the debts, said, “There are ways to get rid of that horse.” The stable boy assigned to watch Alydar says a Lundy associate instructed him to “take the night of November 13 off.” And the head of the Racetrack Safety Committee, after investigating the scene, concluded Alydar’s leg was broken using a rope tied to a pickup truck.
But here’s the best evidence that Lundy (now in jail on a separate fraud conviction) is dirty: Former first brother Roger Clinton reportedly included him on his pardon list.
Stay tuned…
http://www.maximonline.com/sports/articles/article_4630.html
I can't bear the thought of Alydar being forgotten. He was so magnificent.
One of them was J.T. Lundy, former head of the famous Calumet Farms who was sentenced last year to 4 1/2 years in prison for bank fraud. Lundy had given Roger Clinton a job at his Kentucky race horse stud farm after Clinton served a prison term in the 1980s for dealing cocaine. By late 1999, Lundy began asking Clinton for help — even before his trial began. Sources told TIME he suggested Roger try to help delay legal action until the final days of the Clinton presidency, a time in which presidents usually grant pardons.
Lundy offered to reward Roger Clinton with stock in a Venezuelan coal deal, sources told TIME. To protect Clinton from discovery of the payment and assure it remained tax free, the sources said, Lundy suggested to Clinton in November, 1999 that Lundy would transfer the stock to a mutual friend, Dan R. Lasater, a Little Rock financier who was convicted in the mid-1980s for buying drugs from Roger Clinton. The House committee has obtained records showing that Clinton deposited in his bank $100,000 in travelers checks on Nov. 30, 1999, with some of the checks purchased in Venezuela.
Lundy's lawyer, David McGee, told TIME his client had no Venezuelan coal interests to transfer. But a source close to Lundy said a group of his friends from Kentucky did, and Lundy hoped they would facilitate a deal with the president's brother. Roger Clinton's lawyer, Bart Williams, said his client never received payment from Lundy and never recommended him for a pardon. Lasater refused comment.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,165992,00.html
Oh! That totally fries me! They killed that gorgeous horse.
Just another reason to hate the Clinton clan .. as if another one was need. Those connections are Mama's legacy.
Pat Sajak has a blog and he just called Kerry a name..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1332943/posts
Alton Stone was convicted. I thought so but wasn't certain.
ALYDAR'S GROOM CONVICTED
Alton Stone had given too many conflicting reports. These discrepancies were discovered during an investigation of the bankruptcy of First City Bancorp of Houston. Eariler this month Stone was convicted by a court in Houston on 2 counts of "making false statements to a grand jury". The false and conflicting statements were made during a the original grand jury investigation into the death of Alydar, second place to Affirmed's 1978 Triple Crown Winner.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:79mTdRFXc7gJ:www.texashorsemansdirectory.com/homnew.htm+alton+stone+of+calumet+farms&hl=en
I know. I've followed this for years. Just made me physically ill when it happened. PLUS knowing what they were doing do that poor horse before outright killing him. Makes me sick.
Mrs.Lucille Markey couldn't change her husbands will, so the Grandchildren inherited through her husband and got Calumet Farms. Cindy Wright married JT Lundy, the rest is history. However, of Mrs. Markey's 300 million, not one penny went to those kids.
It's a sickening story.
LOL. Kerry is so totally over. :)
For anyone who loves racing, all I have to say is: 31 2:24.
:)
Go here for a HAPPY horse racing story. :)
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016467.html
Who's Kerry?
LOL. Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Catpuppy. SMOOCH.
Your continued absence has been noted in the record. Sharkey has identified you as a habitual rule breaker, along with everyone else on the thread.
Oh Dear. I am glad my absence was noted, I think. LOL.
I have been SO busy.
We do seem to be a bred apart when it comes to rules. :)
Glad to see you're out and about.
It's interesting. Will be very glad when I can do all the things I'd like to do. It is better and I can't really complain.
I am trying to get well enough to attend the Kentucky Derby in May. :) If I can stand up to that, heart wise, I should be able to handle anything. :)
Anything?
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