[Vision2020] Item of Interest

[Tom Hansen]

Greetings Visionaires -

>From today's (June 10, 2005) Sports Illustrated (That's right.  I said
"Sport's Illustrated"), page 26.

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SUED

. . . The Jockey Club, after it prohibited a Paris, Kentucky, horse owner
from naming a 2-year-old filly Sally Hemings, after the slave who is
believed to have had a decades-long affair with her owner, Thomas Jefferson.
The Jockey Club, which regulates the naming of thoroughbreds in the United
States told Garrett Redmond, 75, that such a name could be considered
offensive.  Last month he filed suit in U.S. district court in Lexington.
The still-unnamed filly's dam was Jefferson's Secret, whose sire was
Colonial Affair.

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Take care, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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