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Sham (April 9, 1970 – April 3, 1993) was an American thoroughbred race horse and leading three year-old in 1973, who was overshadowed by his more famous peer, Secretariat. Sham was dark bay, almost black in color. He raced in the green and yellow silks of his owners, Sigmund and Viola Sommer, with matching blinkers.
Sigmund Sommer (June 19, 1916 – April 30, 1979) was a Brooklyn, New York–based building contractor, philanthropist, and racehorse owner of Sham, the horse that placed second to Secretariat in two legs of the 1973 U.S. Triple Crown series. [1] At the time of Sommer's death at 62 in 1979, his estate was valued at almost $1 billion. [2]
Christopher Reeve (1952–2004), actor, paralyzed on May 27, 1995 from the neck down following a fall from his horse while riding cross-country in a 3-day event. Kazu Makino (b. 1969), a rock singer, suffered an accident falling from a horse in 2002; the horse trampled her jaw and crushed her facial bones, which required massive reconstructive ...
An Arkansas police officer has been fired after video shows him allegedly beating a man handcuffed in the back of a patrol car. In a statement posted to social media Aug. 9, the Jonesboro Police ...
Arkansas State Police report three people killed in Madison County and a man died in a Carroll County crash. Also, a woman died in an Okla. crash.
The show jumping horse killings scandal refers to an unverified number of insurance fraud cases in the United States between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s in which expensive horses, many of them show jumpers, were insured against death, accident, or disease, and then killed to collect the insurance money.
An Arkansas police officer who was caught on video beating a handcuffed inmate in the back of a patrol car has been fired and his case has been referred to prosecutors, the police chief said.
The 1973 Preakness Stakes was the 98th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland held on May 19, 1973. Six horses entered, and Secretariat won by 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 lengths ahead of Sham in front of a record crowd of 61,657 spectators.