“I’ve been reading up on the man who owned him. Turns out there’s quite an English angle to the story. Ten Broeck—strange name, Dutch, I think—the one who owned Lexington at the height of his racing career, went on to become quite a celebrity over here. He was the first to bring American horses; at the time the press called it ‘the American Invasion.’ He won some big races and palled about with the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh and miscellaneous European royals for about thirty years. Then he managed to lose his fortune entirely. Died alone and penniless in a bungalow in
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What he giveth, he taketh away.
