spendthrift
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Spendthrift general manager Ned Toffey said the farm and its partners were disappointed but wanted to stay focused on the decorated mare’s health.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021
Spendthrift Farm, the legendary Lexington, Ky., thoroughbred ranch Hughes bought a decade and a half ago, said in a statement on its website that he died at his residence there surrounded by family.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2021
One of his more loyal stables, Spendthrift Farm, moved six of its horses from Baffert’s barn.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021
It has led to one farm, Spendthrift of Kentucky, telling the Daily Racing Form it would pause working with Baffert.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2021
A Spendthrift, who had wasted his fortune, and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood, saw a Swallow one fine day in early spring.
From Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Jones, V. S. Vernon
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