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Behind Normandy Farm’s limestone rock fences along Paris Pike in Lexington, horses were sustained by luxuriant green fields and paddocks long before it was cleaved from famed Elmendorf Farm 70 years ago.
The catlike power and bounding glory of Flightline graced our racetracks for the last time on Nov. 5, and one of the marks of highest merit for the bay son of Tapit (by Pulpit) is that he translated the exceptional speed and overpowering dominance he had shown while racing in California to tracks in New York (for the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap) and Kentucky (for his career finale in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Classic).
Foaled in Kentucky, Society is bred and raced by Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds LLC. Blum also bred but sold Authentic (Into Mischief), who won the 2020 Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic. Based on those achievements, Authentic was named 2020 Horse of the Year.
William H. 'Billy' Turner Jr., Thoroughbred trainer who saddled unbeaten Seattle Slew for a sweep of the 1977 Triple Crown, has died on Dec. 31 at the age of 81.