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Originally Posted by Turbulator
Clicking on the above link took me to a page with some other links including the one I'm reading now. "The Killing of Alydar." It's fascinating.
"In her 1992 Connoisseur story, Flake hinted that Alydar's death might not have been accidental. After learning that the farm's insurance policies on Alydar totaled $36.5 million, making him the most heavily insured horse in history, she went so far as to suggest that Alydar might have been worth more dead than alive. Yet no law enforcement official had shown any interest in pursuing the issue—until Tomala began flipping through records about Calumet in 1996.
What she realized was that Lundy had to have been frantic in the months before Alydar's death. There was no way he was going to be able to come up with that $15 million payment to First City by February 1991. An accountant who had studied Calumet's records told Tomala that the farm was then losing almost $1 million a month."
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Steve, you might enjoy reading
Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/...ride&x=25&y=24
I know some things about Lundy that aren't in the book. In the spirit of being positive I won't mention them.
One of the cool things about the book is how Alydar got his name. I won't spoil it for you!
:>)