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The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the end of Horse Racing’s golden Age
Cowboy Kipp, the regular night watchman, is off this night, and Alton Stone has taken his place. Stone checks on Alydar at 9:30 p.m. and all is well. The night watchman starts his rounds of the 762-acre farm, but sensing something wrong, returns to Alydar’s stall at 10:00 p.m. The horse has a broken right rear leg, his coat is steaming, and there is terror in the whites of his eyes. The roller bracket holding the stall door is sheared off and lying in the middle of the floor, but the door is latched closed.
—John Veitch, Alydar’s trainer, inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 2007.
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