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WW, Thirty-eight fillies have started in the Kentucky Derby with three
winning: Regret (1915), Genuine Risk (1980) and Winning Colors (1988). In
1999, two fillies, Excellent Meeting and Three Ring, competed in the Derby.
They finished fifth and last, respectively.
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The Cisco Kid was no friend of mine but his horse was a friend of my sidekick "Andy". Andy met Diablo in San Francisco when he was army brat. Andy got a certificate to authenticate the event but lost it. Andy also met Topper, Hopalong Cassidy's horse when he came to the base. Andy claims that very few sidekicks could afford a horse of their own.
Gabby hayes: No horse
Tonto: Scout
Andy Devine: No permanent horse
Smiley Burnett: No horse
Poncho: Had horse
Pat Butrum: Nellybelle, but it was a jeep.
Chill Wills: no horse, but rode the bomb.
Andy did only a little better in remembering the horses of heros.
Red Ryder: Thunder
Lash Larue: can't remember
Tom Mix: a two horse shooter, Old Blue and Tony.
Wild Bill Elliot: not known for his horse but for always saying... ordinarily I'm a peaceful man...
Paladin: rode stage into town, then rented horse.
The Green Hornet: Black Beauty OK the Black Beauty was his car but he was the great nephew of The Lone Ranger and Andy just added this for incidental value.
And if Andy ever runs out of incidentals I will dump my sidekick and start using URL's.
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WW, why in the world (w/w) do you have a statue of Caligula in Richmond? It's not like he was an early R.E. Lee, or something?
Sure it's Caligula? Could be Richard Milhouse Nixon in a toga. Oh hang on, he got the boot, didn't he? Sorry ...
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I'm starting to do a Bill here.
Caligula as someone has pointed out above, was the son of Germanicus, whom rumour hath it was killed by Augustus for some personal slight (or by Livia so that Tiberius would inherit the throne). He was well-educated, but knew full well that those in power around him had pretty much put paid to his family and trusted no one. He became bi-polar (well, that's the explanation I read somewhere; I'm no psychiatrist).
I'm not sure if there's any truth in the rumour that he murdered Tiberius on Capri (or had him murdered). Tiberius was actually not all that young and hadn't lived what you might call a healthy life since becoming emperor.
Caligula gradually completely lost touch with reality. I've read commentaries which suggest that Sejanus' murderous regime in Rome gradually eliminated all those around Caligula who might have kept him on an even keel.
I think that John Hurt's role as Caligula was something of a caricature. Still, he was a quite horrid little man, although probably not the worst of the Roman emperors from the point of view of the average vir in the via.
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Nope, Maxie, read it again. I said that Sejanus eliminated anyone around Caligula who might have supported him and perhaps kept him acting sanely. Although I would actually like to think that it could be possible that in one of our countries, when cash was short, the Prime Minister or President or Grand Panjandrum might order the MPs' wifes to go on the game (on the State's behalf, of course) to fatten the Treasury's coffers. 
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Tiberius was not your upstanding role model for young Romans. He was fond of vacationing on Capri because he could indulge his penchant for pretty boys without all the finger-pointing and whispering that would have incited in Rome.
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Giving names to cars is also an interesting subject. My father bought a 1948 Chevrolet sedan new, and drove it until until the mid-'60s. He was a railroad car repair foreman and always had to go to wrecks to supervise the removal of rail cars from the tracks or wherever, and to get to a wreck he had to drive down the narrow bumpy dirt access roads to the tracks. This beat up the car so badly that by the late '50s it was practically a wreck itself. It was such a heap (as we used to call an old beat-up car) that we took to calling it Uriah (my father was a great Dickens fan).
Any other names of cars y'all want to share?
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*Vaguely* relative to the horse thread, even! My first car was a hand-me-down 1976 fire engine red Ford Pinto. yes, that's where I'm claiming the vague relation to horses starts. And ends. It quickly proved itself to be, well, a Pinto (the biggest joke of a car since the Nova went to South America) and it was consequently dubbed "Hell". Not coincidentally, I felt like I was in Hell every time I got behind the wheel. Lucky me, the fiery furnace never did erupt while I owned the thing ~ but I was mercifully able to avoid being rear-ended.
The next car was a vomitous little Plymouth Horizon. Not a whole lot better, but enough so that its name became "Purgatory". It was inoffensive enough, especially by comparison to Hell.
After that was a 1973 green Volvo station wagon/tank. I arbitrarily decided that naming my cars was somehow jinxing them, so this one didn't get a name. But its engine seemed to run better when I spoke Spanish to it. It was 16 years old when I got it, I had to try something!!!
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Of the cars that I have owned that received names: 1965 German Opel Kadet El Burro Blanco 1968 Dodge van Grandma Dodge 1976 Monte Carlo Nelliebelle 1977 Datsu n station wagon Rusty 1982 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Johnny B Goode Rusty's n fell off, if you must know.  and yes, Rusty was. Very.
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