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The brazen bull, also known as the bronze bull, Sicilian bull, or bull of Phalaris, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece. [1] According to Diodorus Siculus , recounting the story in Bibliotheca historica , Perilaus (Περίλαος) (or Perillus (Πέριλλος)) of Athens invented and proposed it to Phalaris , the ...
Steel Dust was foaled about 1843 in Kentucky. [1] His sire was Harry Bluff, whose sire was Short Whip (or Short's Whip) and dam was Big Nance, a descendant of Timoleon. [1] [2] It is believed that he was taken to Texas in 1845 by Middleton Perry and Jones Greene, where he was used as a work horse and was run in match races. [3]
The other eight runners included Laws of Indices, Steel Bull (Molecomb Stakes), The Lir Jet (Norfolk Stakes), Ventura Tormenta (Prix Robert Papin) and Aloha Star (Airlie Stud Stakes). Lucky Vega raced just behind the leaders before taking the lead inside the final furlong and drawing away to win "easily" by three and a half lengths and a short ...
The mechanical bull featured in this movie was the El Toro brand of mechanical bull. This brand of mechanical bull is still in circulation, but does not carry the same safety features that are available on more current models. "Bucking bronco" or "bronc" is cowboy slang for a horse that throws a person around. [2]
Steel Heart (25 March 1972 – 4 July 1994) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.He was the first major winner for the Irish trainer Dermot Weld.In 1974 he established himself as one of the best two-year-olds of his generation in Britain and Ireland when he won three of his five races including the Gimcrack Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes as well as finishing second to Grundy in the ...
Notes: Just Steel opened his racing career last June at Ellis Park and owns a victory at Churchill Downs, winning the $225,000 Ed Brown Stakes on Nov. 25 at 12-1 odds. … Keith Asmussen is the ...
Citizen Bull won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile by 1 1/2 lengths and Gaming was second at Del Mar on Friday, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert a 1-2 finish and his record sixth career ...
The horse was named after the folk hero John Henry. As a colt, John Henry had a habit of tearing steel water and feed buckets off stall walls and stomping them flat. This reminded his owners of the legendary John Henry, who was known as a "steel-drivin' man".