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Equine computer dating?
Horses have a new way of finding a mate
By TOM BOVEE
Associated Press Writer
NORMAN; Okla. (AP) --- Call itS racetrack dating service or
an equine version of "Roots" the computer• revolution is
coming to the art of breeding the nation's 2.million quarter
it horses. " '
A quarter-horse bloodlines computer service based in central
Oklahoma, where some of the greatest racehorses have been
bred, will be the first in the nation to list quarter horses
exclusively, says Walton Wiggins, research editor of Speed
horse Inc., whose three publications reach about 20,000 profes
sional horse breeders.
ok For $5O a would-be horse trader can get a 4-foot printout
giving the pedigree and record of a quarter horse he wants to
breed or buy, in a league where prices sometimes run to seven
figures.
"We will have information on every start a horse has ever
made in racing," Wiggins says. "On the brood mares and sires,
we will have all the data on every one of their foals."
Some lines will stretch back eight generations, Wiggins says,
it and the job of collecting the records from various sources and
loading them into the $500,000 computer will take up to 16 man-
Gold and
about life
By JOAN BRUNSKILL
NEW YORK . (AP) "Lift a Gold
Bar." That was the genial offer on a label
in the exhibition, "Shipwrecked 1622:
9 The Lost Treastire of Philip IV," recently
shown at the. Queens Museum here.
It was a perfectly genuine invitation
you really could grab the gold bar, about
5 gleaming pounds of 17th-century Span
i ish gold, although a plastic shield pre
vented your making off with it.
') The gold bar was one of the many
treasures, recovered from a 1622 shipw
reck, in the exhibition, which was spon
sored by the Chase Manhattan Bank. The
collection included archeological infor
mation that marine archeologist R. Dun
can 'Mathewson said "is probably worth
more thin the gold and silver."
The objects exhibited have an esti
mated value of more than $lO million
and also constitute a priceless record of
life aboard a 17th-century galleon.
Mathewson works for Treasure Sal
vors Inc., the salvage team of treasure
oi hunter Mel Fisher, whose work on two
' Spanish galleons shipwrecked off Florida
in 11622 resulted in the collection of rare
and precious artifacts on show . here. It is ,
the most comprehensive display of Span
ish colonial gold ever presented.
The collection has been studied by
, 11, university scholars and museum special
ists, to whom it is available when it is not
• being exhibited. Eventually it is hoped
the • collection will form, h permanent
exhibition, possibly in Key West, Fla.
The two treasure galleons, the Nuestta
Senora de Atocha and the Santa Margari
Ganarra
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silver artifacts give clues
on a 1 7th-century galleon
ta, were lost in a hurricane off the Flor
ida coast. They were part of a convoy of
28 ships carrying the riches of the New
World to finance the Thirty Years War
then raging in Europe.
The saga of the galleons and their
mission, the tragic storm resulting in
their loss and the consequences of the
loss of the gold on Spanish history, then
.the early salvage efforts followed by
recent years of search and recovery, are
Material for a real-life adventure story,
whose authentic evidence is in this exhi
bition.
For as Mathewson points out, "Every
time a ship sinks to the bottom of the sea,
a time capsule is created. Each artifaCt
recovered fits in to a lifestyle. Finds like
this tell us an awful lot about what was
happening not, only in Spain in the 17th
century but also in the Americas."
The collection represents not only the
precious cargo but also the lives of the
men who were conveying it it includes
not only 'the king's gold but also his
sailor's dough cutter and razor sheath.
The crew needed to defend themselves,
so there are swords, rapiers and dag
gers, some recovered deeply encrusted
in marine deposits, and a variety of shot
musket shot, grapeshot, round shot
and chain shot. Functional objects from
everyday life include a pewter inkwell,
silver buckle and sandshaker, iron skillet
and three-legged kettle, brass pestles
and mortars, ceramic olive jars and
iron leg shackles.
There are the sailors' tools of trade
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years, although the company hopes to hire enough hands to
complete the job in eight months.
"The art of breeding a racehorse is probably the most
scientific form of genealogy that ever existed, the best have
been bred to the best for years," Wiggins says.
Speed on the racetrack is often a matter of choosing the right
ancestors. Breeders "look for a horse that was extremely fast
and had a very nice race record, but you also look for horses
that are fashionably bred and have superior genes throughout
their generations," Wiggins says. .
"That tells you the chance of getting a superior runner out of
that family is more likely because of what the computer tells
you the past generations of that family have done."
Speedhorse began work on the project four years ago, says
Connie Golden, editor and publisher. "Somebody has needed to
do it. Considering we have a very powerful industry investing
hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to. have access to this
information is a tragedy."
She expects 400 subsctibers to hook directly into the Speed
horse computer and perhaps 20,000 others in the horse business
to make queries by phone or mail.
Even the most precious items have
their archeological value, too. A coral
and gold rosary, a reliquary ring, unusu
al silver devotional columns and a brass
madonna and child reflect the impor
tance of religious faith. Personal treasur
es include. beautifully worked gold and
silver bowls and plates, a gold bosun's
whistle, a selection of shininggold neck
chains, a couple of emerald rings.
Then there is just bulk gold and silver,
in bars, most of which are officially
stamped, but with a few unmarked and
clearly contraband, smuggled in as pri
vate-enterprise cargo. A half-disc of gold
shows cut marks as if it were a gilded
slab of soft Brie cheese. A massive bar of
silver weighs 70 pounds, a mass of en
crusted silver coins a bulky 105 pounds.
Mel Fisher led the salvage efforts,
following a trail of clues, that included
information from Spain's Archives of the
Indies in Seville, and that finally led him
in 1971 to the 'correct location of the
wrecks. He points out that there is still a
lot more to find, that this first exhibition
shows only a fraction of what there is.
"We've only brought in about 5 percent
so far," he says, basing this estimate on
comparison with the manifests of every.'
thing on board, which still exist. The total
value of the ships' cargo is estimated at
more than a quarter of a billion dollars.
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navigational instruments, a handsome
astrolabe in brass, a sundial, lead sound
ing weight and anchors; including one
massive bower anchor weighing 1,280
pounds."
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