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SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2021 THIS SIDE UP: TIZ THE MALATHAAT & MARACUJA REMATCH IN ALABAMA STORY OF A TRUE Maracuja (Honor Code) put an end to 'TDN Rising Star' Malathaat (Curlin)'s unbeaten record when they last met in MAGICIAN Saratoga's GI CCA Oaks July 24. Now that GI Kentucky Oaks winner will try to turn the tables on that foe and return to winning ways as the even-money, morning-line favorite in Saturday's prestigious GI Alabama S. going an additional furlong at the Spa. A perfect three-for-three as a juvenile, capped by a victory in the GII Demoiselle S., Malathaat kicked off her sophomore campaign with a head success in Keeneland's GI Central Bank Ashland S. Apr. 3. The $1.05-million KEESEP acquisition rallied to a gritty victory in the Kentucky Oaks Apr. 30 and led every step of the way in the CCA Oaks before being worn down late by Maracuja to be second by a head. Cont. p6 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY B. Wayne Hughes | Horsephotos NUNTHORPE CAST FEEL WINTER’S CHILL by Chris McGrath Winter Power blitzed her rivals in Friday’s G1 Nunthorpe S., Nothing, it seems, will help you see through the vanity of with Coolmore and Wesley Ward’s Golden Pal only seventh. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. materialism quite like a $4.1 billion fortune. A few summers ago, I was sitting alone in the baronial boardroom at Spendthrift, waiting to interview the farm's owner. It was a hot day, but here all was panelled cool, the venerable furnishings slumbering through the prosperous drone of a lawnmower. I was thinking about this apt conflation of heritage and modernity when startled by the entry of a tanned octogenarian whose casual apparel, in the round, must have cost rather less than a typical pair of socks on Wall Street. B. Wayne Hughes apologized for running a little late, slouched into a chair, and gave the kind of smile you hope to see from the fellow who takes up his place next to you in the bleachers. By the time we had finished, of course, I understood that even the immense riches that had funded the Spendthrift revival were nothing compared with the inner wealth of this extraordinary human being. Of course, he couldn't have accumulated one without the other--but nobody fortunate to have borrowed his insights for an hour or two would be so crass as to measure the man we lost on Wednesday merely by his worldly assets. 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Now if I had that kind of moneyYNo, come on, what's the point of having an example like that right in front of you, if you still say that? When I have that kind of money, I must likewise see through the trappings; and remember that someday we will all be reduced, by our shared mortality, to the basic human equation: a finite existence that spans infinite possibilities of conduct, but only one ultimate outcome. B. Wayne Hughes sporting Authentic's Breeders' Cup flowers | Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders' Cup There's a consoling paradox to the fact that the B. Wayne Hughes respected and celebrated from the outside, including right here, will inevitably be a mere silhouette of the private figure loved and now grieved by friends and family. These latter will be discovering little comfort in the reflection that Hughes was one of the greatest of all "winners" in the game of life. Their bereavement, on a human level, is no different from that endured by the rest of us, whatever our station, creed or color. (And nobody knew that better than Hughes himself, having lost an 8-year-old son to leukemia). Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • AUGUST 21, 2021 This Side Up cont. Thoroughbred. The other is one that might work for any or all of But you know what? When their tears have dried, and they us, as individuals--and that is his example. The son of an can take a step back, they should let the Oklahoma sharecropper, whose family salutations of the public figure gradually made the Grapes of Wrath migration from seep into their reckonings. Because having the Dust Bowl with a mattress strapped to duly lamented a cherished, complex parcel the car roof, he sampled the full spectrum of flesh and blood, they will perhaps join of human experience under capitalism. the obituarists in recognizing the only The humility that made Hughes so immortality we know to be available: insistent on his ordinariness is not, of namely, the way a person uses such years course, the same as meekness. And his as fall to his or her allocation. horror of pretension reflected a contempt In this case, the most obvious legacy for the kind of airs he saw in those who could scarcely be more tangible. His are either born to privilege, or devote philanthropic munificence will for years to their lives to its pursuit. Perhaps this come achieve concrete transformation in helped to stimulate the revolution he the odds facing those who feel they have instigated in Kentucky's commercial "lost" the game of life. (And that aversion breeding industry, causing such fear and to personal aggrandizement, so evident in resentment among his establishment his wardrobe and mode of life, would rivals. These complained that the kind of prompt him to make many donations B. Wayne Hughes | Spendthrift incentive schemes by which Hughes conditional on absolute anonymity.) sustained an ever more industrial roster But Hughes leaves us parallel bequests that are barely less would make competition no longer viable. Most, however, momentous. One, also destined to last for generations, will be ended up introducing equivalent programs on their own farms. registered in the genetic composition of the modern Cont. p5 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • AUGUST 21, 2021 This Side Up cont. moribund young stallion named Into Mischief. "You pay a bunch Hughes relished their discomfiture. "When you print all this of money for a stallion, it's got the best chance," Hughes said. crap that I'm saying, I'm probably going to be written up as a "But his chances aren't 100%. And another guy's chance isn't nut," he said that morning, zero. They're closer together. chuckling exultantly. "But I So we'll see." don't give a damn. What are And see we did. The system they going to do to me? produced its game-changer, There's nothing they can do. and now Spendthrift has once That's what kills those guys." again become a destination He had been here before, for Classic, two-turn stallions after all, remembering the at the top end of the market, hostility of Californians to now including a Horse of the "Okies" who would work Year in Authentic. gratefully even for a Hughes cheerfully declared subsistence wage.