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No terms of the deal were announced by the IEAH Stable ownership or the farm. The Daily Racing Form said the deal is worth $50 million.
"We have entertained a variety of flattering offers but felt Three Chimneys was the best choice for us," IEAH co-owner Michael Iavarone said in a statement. Two other horses that won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness — Silver Charm and Smarty Jones — also stand at Three Chimneys.
"Three Chimneys is thrilled to have the privilege to stand a horse of Big Brown’s caliber," farm owner Robert Clay said. "Having won every race he’s run with such ease, I don’t think we’ve actually seen what he’s truly capable of."
Derby Drug Tests Negative
The postrace analysis of the horses in the Kentucky Derby came back negative for all 19 runners, said John Veitch, the chief steward at Churchill Downs. "They tested for about 250 drugs and all things were negative," Veitch said.
Pays to Dream Wins Dixie
The most emphatic victory on the Preakness Day card came from an unlikely source, as the 4-year-old gelding Pays to Dream won the 107th Grade II $250,000 Dixie for 3-year-olds and up on the turf.
The only other time Pays to Dream had run on a soft turf course, he had stumbled and lost his rider, Javier Castellano. On Saturday, however, Castellano stayed on, roared out of last place down the lane and drew away to win by 7 1/2 lengths at 19-1 odds.
The winner ran the 1 1/8 -mile race on a soft turf course with plenty of give in a slow 1 minute 54.74 seconds and paid $40.40 to win.
“I had a beautiful trip today, a dream trip,” Castellano said. “He passed the others and went by them so easy. He really exploded. I liked the way he opened up on the field.”

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NEW ORLEANS - The Celtics’ locker room was extremely quiet. No NCAA Tournament games were on the television. Disappointment could be read on each player’s face. You would have thought Boston finished its eight-day, five-game trip winless.
NEW ORLEANS - The Celtics’ locker room was extremely quiet. No NCAA Tournament games were on the television. Disappointment could be read on each player’s face. You would have thought Boston finished its eight-day, five-game trip winless.
But in striving for perfection, the Celtics went home disappointed after completing its trip 4-1 following a 113-106 setback to the hot Hornets last night in front of a boisterous, sellout crowd of 18,280 at New Orleans Arena.
“We don’t like it. We don’t like to lose,” coach Doc Rivers said. “I told the guys, ‘Good trip, but we lost a game that we gave away on turnovers.’ I don’t know why we would feel good about that.
“Having said that, in the whole picture, it was a terrific trip. Going 4-1 on this trip was terrific. But it stings a little bit when you know tonight if you just take care of the ball and stay solid, there is a good chance you could have had a 5-0 trip.”
The Celtics opened the trip with an expected victory at Milwaukee. Next was a rare sweep of the Texas Triangle as Boston overcame a 22-point deficit to win at San Antonio last Monday, snapped Houston’s remarkable 22-game winning streak Tuesday, and staged a late rally to beat Dallas Thursday. The Celtics became the first team since the Kings in 2001 to accomplish a sweep in Texas.
But last night, Boston fell apart in the final quarter, getting outscored, 32-17. Stingy New Orleans (47-21) has allowed only 40 points in its last three fourth quarters. Hornets All-Star forward David West scored 37 points by nailing 15 of 25 shots and sinking all seven free throw attempts. Boston allowed 32 points off turnovers overall.

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HOLLAND, Ky.: The Stephens relatives tend to stick together. Several of them live on the same road in the south-central Kentucky farming community of Holland, according to Vonda McPeak, who said her husband is a distant Stephens cousin.
That's why the Stephens name showed up so many times on the list of dead and injured from the ferocious storms that struck the region late Tuesday and early Wednesday. Linda Stephens, 53, and her 2-year-old grandson, Hunter, were killed, and seven other people with that surname — including an infant and a 1-year-old — were hurt, according to McPeak and state police.
An another mobile home just a mile or so away, Phyllis “Joy” Dow, 58, and her husband Michael Dow, 50, also were killed, making four deaths in Allen County, state police said. The county neighbors Macon County and Sumner County, Tenn., which together saw at least 20 storm deaths that night.
In Muhlenberg County in western Kentucky, Bobby Joe Crick, 71, and his 62-year-old wife, Diane Crick, 62, died with their 40-year-old daughter, Gilda Ann Crick, when the storms hit their mobile home park near Greenville, said Ted Tucker, co-owner of Tucker Funeral Home in Central City.
HARTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nova and Ray Story weathered the storm in their home and went out to look for Ray Story's brother, Bill Clark, who lived in a mobile home. What was left of the trailer had been flipped upside down, but the 70-year-old was alive when they pulled him from the wreckage.
They put him in their pickup and drove to a hospital, with neighbors pulling debris from the road in front of them.
Clark died in the back of the truck.
“He knew he was going to die when we put him in the pickup truck,” Ray Story said.
“He never had a chance,” Nova Story said. “I looked him right in the eye and he died right there in front of me.”
ALDRIDGE GROVE, Ala. (AP) — Investigators probably won't ever know whether Greg Coleman, 40, his wife, Becky Coleman, 49, and their 19-year-old son, Garreck, knew what hit their north Alabama home around 3 a.m. Wednesday.
A tornado siren sounded right around then, but it was 10 miles away in Moulton, said Brenda Morgan, deputy emergency management director in Lawrence County. Aldridge Grove lacks such a warning system, and the Colemans were killed when their home was hit, according to county coroner Micah Coffee.
Not long after that, sirens sounded at least three times some 80 miles to the east in the town of Pisgah, Jackson County emergency management director Victor Manning said. But 60-year-old Linda Tinker apparently didn't hear them or couldn't find shelter, and was killed, county coroner John David Jordan said.
SHIRLEY, Ark. (AP) — Letter carrier Tonya Selken and her family picked out the low spot where they put the trailer they called home specifically because they believed it was safe from tornadoes. They'd seen several skip past the site over the years, and she was even home one day when one went overhead without touching it, said her father, Jerry Simpkins.
Late Tuesday, though, a twister finally found her. Selken, 36, was among four people killed when storms moved through Van Buren County, and her husband and 14-year-old daughter were seriously injured, relatives said.

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