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Nahiva - horse racing Breed: English Sarob Brad Gender: Male Coat color: Chestnut Nationality: American Birthplace: Bel Air Stables Owner: William Woodward Trim: silver saddle, red top, red hooves Trainer: Sonny Fitzmont Total score: 30:22 Total prize money: $12,885,650,000 Nahiva (born April 14, 1952, died February 3, 1982), was born in Salo Brad Racehorse in the United States. Nahiva's blood is pure and noble. His father is Nahirullah, who was born in 1940 and has won many European championships.His mother is Seguwa, who was born in 1942. Nahiva was born and raised in the famous Bel-Air stables of his owner William Woodward, and was trained by the famous teacher Sonny Fitzmont since he was a child.Its rider is Eddie Yacaro.

In 1954, the two-year-old Nashiva participated in 8 races, won six championships and two runners-up, and became the national two-year-old horse champion of the year.In the second year, he won the championship of the three-year-old horse in the United States and the title of "Best Racehorse of the Year". The most famous and emotional moment of Nahiva's career came in the 1955 Kentucky Derby against defending champion Swapes, who had beaten it the previous year. At the end of October of the same year, after William Woodward's death, the horses in the Bel Air stables were auctioned one after another.Nahiva is the first horse in the world to sell for more than $1 million.

After that, Nahiva won four championships in various events in 1956, and retired at the end of the year at the Spin River Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1965, Nashiva was selected into the "Famous Horse Record" of the National Horse Racing Museum. Nahiva died at Spin River Racecourse in 1982. In 1985, the racecourse hired sculptor Lisa Ted to create a large outdoor statue for Nahiva. In 1999, Nahiva ranked 24th among the "100 Best American Racehorses of the 20th Century" selected by The Blood-Horse magazine. Compared with the illustriousness of her husband's family, the family background of Jenny Woodward's mother's family is hardly worth mentioning.

In fact, the word "not worth mentioning" is more or less humble, and the accurate expression may be that it cannot be mentioned, it is not worth mentioning, and it is shameful to mention it.So until long after their marriage, William Woodward still had only a vague impression that his wife's ancestral home was in Pittsburgh, Kansas, and his wife's maiden name was "Yanqilinna Crowell". ". By Kansas standards, Yanqilina was quite talented and courageous when she was young.She sang a few tunes and acted in a few plays on the stage of their middle school, and she decided that staying in such a small and remote place for the rest of her life would deprive her of her talents.Yan Qilinna first went to Kansas City for two years, and in the summer of 1937 broke into New York City alone with a broken suitcase.

When Yan Qilinna came to New York, she went to Broadway there.After more than a year of hard work, I finally won a small role by relying on the Kansas accent that had not been changed at the time, playing the wife of a Kansas farmer in the stage play "President Lincoln in Illinois". A line, "so-and-so's wife" that the screenwriter didn't even bother to give her a name.However, Yan Qilinna used this opportunity to play her stage name - Yanni Eden.She told her friends that she shortened "Yanqilinna" to two syllables and used the word Eden from "Eden" in the Bible as her surname, which would be easy for the audience to remember.

Jenny Eden walked into Broadway with her Kansas accent, but she hated her Kansas accent the most, as soon as she opened her mouth, people could tell that she was an outsider and a local.In the next few years, Yanni achieved two things seriously with her perseverance that surprised her. One was to develop a standard model figure, and the other was to develop a body that even New York natives could hardly tell the truth from. Authentic New York accent. Later, Yanni worked as a model, starred in singing and dancing shows, and when she was lucky, she also appeared in the whole drama. She also went to MGM Films to try two shots, but she spent more time doing it in various nightclubs. dancer or backup dancer.Yanni is still very young, but she is already worrying about her age and hiding her age.After all, it is not easy for a woman, especially a young woman with a beautiful face and no other means of earning a living, to settle down in a "land of tigers and wolves" like New York, and Yanni also received a lot of money.There are rumors that Yanni's last night job was arranged by Frank Costello, the head of the mafia Luciano family at the time. There is a performance at midnight every night and one at 3 o'clock in the morning every week. Earned a $50 take-out tip, and it was at the best "Monte Carlo" nightclub in New York at the time.The owner of the nightclub is named "Feifei", which is what New Yorkers often call "Feifei's Monte Carlo".Under the tall glass dome there are extremely precious, rare, and difficult-to-serve white palm trees. The spacious and gorgeous stage is well-lit, no less than Broadway and Lincoln Center. The entrance of Avenue 54 is full of people, often crowded. Two rows of black extra-long courtesy cars.Jenny recognized Winston Gass, Branda Kelly, John Witney, Mike Phillips and other millionaires or celebrities among the guests, and even had the honor to have a farewell to Charlie Chaplin. Sitting at the same table, Lin later glued a small American flag to one of the comedian's swizzling sticks and kept it in his scrapbook as a treasure.