Mr Hayden is a thoroughbred ideologue: a one-time student radical who tried to change the world with his former wife, Jane Fonda, before settling down to change California as a state senator.
An auction did offer a chance to win part ownership of a Thoroughbred race horse, and the luncheon also honored a well-known female Thoroughbred owner and breeder.
He's the registrar of the Jockey Club and the person who says yea or nay to some 37, 000 Thoroughbred names a year.
She says she uses the money to feed and house a thoroughbred horse she rides for competitive matches of polocrosse, a mashup of lacrosse and polo.
Her job also means delivering bad news, a constant reality in thoroughbred racing, about a horse's health.
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Servers are born to share files like a thoroughbred is born to run.
All this suggests that Google's one-trick pony is really more of a thoroughbred.
After he sold two medical technology companies he'd founded, Lordi took up horse breeding (including a thoroughbred named Saigon Eve).
The average price of a thoroughbred at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga summer yearling sale is down 6% from last year.
Nor could you get a Thoroughbred horse into the Kentucky Derby.
However, the Thoroughbred Racing Industry is a small fraction of the horse slaughter picture.
Was the thoroughbred pound in fact a beneficiary of the carry trade, the strategy of borrowing cheaply in Swiss francs or Japanese yen to buy higher-yielding currencies?
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The objections included everything from the desirability of preserving the historic facade to the need to pump Mozart into stalls at a nearby Thoroughbred farm to calm jittery horses during construction.
There is hardly a time when I ride my skittish thoroughbred that I don't wonder whether horses are a form of insanity.
The thoroughbred sector benefits solely from a tax exemption on the fees for stallion nominations.
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In his last big speech as president of Confindustria, the Italian employers' association, the elegant and telegenic Mr Montezemolo appeared to call on Italians to ditch Mr Prodi's shaky old two-wheeler and hitch their fortunes to a Formula One thoroughbred.
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Those purses are a big reason seven of the 10 top-earning horses--based on career winnings, tabulated by the Thoroughbred Times' Racing Almanac, a trade publication based in Lexington, Ky.
It was later revealed the thoroughbred had won the esteemed title with a leg injury -- only adding to her mythical invincibility.
Already a resort town by 1863, when the first Thoroughbred racing meeting was held, Saratoga Springs has seen its fortunes rise and fall over the last century and a half.
Days before my visit, that price had been paid for a 2-year-old Thoroughbred at an auction not far from Pure Thoughts.
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Lukas was thoroughbred racing's first organization man, a former Wisconsin high school basketball coach who brought the principle of "flooding the zone" from the court to the race track.
It might not reach the fanatical level of baseball rotisserie leagues or fantasy football, but yes, Thoroughbred racing does indeed have its own version of a fantasy game.
In the 1980s, there was a spate of public offerings for breeding farms and thoroughbred partnerships, but the stocks fell out of favor with investors.
Jerry Brown, president of Thorograph, a New York-based firm that provides data and thoroughbred consulting to owners, breeders, and bettors, says the main issue is that the breeder market rewards big, good-looking yearlings that sell for a lot of money, without taking into account their sturdiness.
New York's state legislature is in the middle of negotiating a new franchise to see who will operate the state's three thoroughbred racetracks.
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At the 2011 Jockey Club Round Table in Saratoga Springs, New York, Michael Lamb and Dan Singer of McKinsey and Company presented the results of a study commissioned by the Jockey Club, which is the breed registry for Thoroughbred horses in this country, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
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