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Awesome Again arrives at Old Friends Oct. 30, 2020
Old Friends distributed the following press release on Dec. 16:
1998 Breeders Cup Classic winner Awesome Again died very suddenly yesterday at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky. The stallion was 26.
Michael Blowen, founder and President of Old Friends, made the announcement this morning.
The exact cause of death is unknown; however, a full necropsy is pending and a full veterinary report will follow.
The Canadian-bred son of Deputy Minister, Awesome Again had an exemplary resume as both a racehorse and a stallion. He broke his maiden at Hollywood Park in just his second start as a 3-year-old in 1997. He returned a few weeks later to capture that year s Queen s Plate Stakes at Woodbine. Back in the U.S. that summer the son of Deputy Minister went on to win the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes and was third to Deputy Commander in the Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga.
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Salt Bay Chamberfest Sets the Coast to Music
âHarmony on Land and Seaâ â Wilhelmina Smith in Round Pond (Photo: Joseph Zizzo) 12/15/2020 2:10 PM
select Salt Bay Chamberfest Artistic Director Wilhelmina Smith and cinematographer Joseph Zizzo have created four videos that pair solo music with midcoast Maine vistas and are available at no cost.
The series, titled “Harmony on Land and Sea: Finding Music in an Exalted Maine Landscape,” features music inspired by the Maine coast. The first video, set on Round Pond Harbor, is available now at saltbaychamberfest.org. SBC will release one video monthly through February. The videos feature Johann Sebastian Bach’s prelude from Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major; Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Breathe”; Per Nørgård’s “Solo Intimo” and Dawn Avery’s “Gratitude.”
Forest rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation responded to three search-and-rescue missions in the past week for lost people in the Adirondack wilderness. Two were found cold but alive, but one hunter was found dead near the southern Adirondack boundary.
Hunter didnât make it
On Friday, Dec. 4, at 9 p.m., DECâs Ray Brook dispatch received a call from a member of a hunting camp in the Sander Road area of the Fulton County town of Bleecker, advising that a 45-year-old hunter from Scotia was overdue from an afternoon hunt.
Forest Rangers Ian Kerr and Gary Miller responded to investigate and search the area. The rangers searched throughout the night and located tracks and personal items left by the hunter, but could not locate the subject.