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 On This Day... | bloodhorse.com
Tom Rolfe let it be known that he was a legitimate Kentucky Derby contender with a victory in the April 24 Stepping Stone at Churchill Downs a week before the big race.
Tom Rolfe, who went into the Stepping Stone off a win in the Cheapeake Stakes at Laurel, was last of six before taking command around the turn.
Tom Rolfe beat Dapper Dan in the Preakness, thus launching the Ribot era in the U.S. In the Belmont, Tom Rolfe finished second to Hail to All, with Dapper Dan fourth.
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 Tom Rolfe -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The racehorse Tom Rolfe (1962 - 1989) was one of the best American sons of the great racehorse and sire (Click link for more info and facts about Ribot) Ribot.
His dam was the blue hen mare Pocahontas, from whom he takes his name (The historical (A Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617)) Pocahontas's only child was named Thomas).
To showcase his versatility, Tom Rolfe shipped to France and contested the (Click link for more info and facts about Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe) Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tom_rolfe.htm   (199 words)

  
 Tom Rolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To showcase his versatility, Tom Rolfe shipped to France and contested the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Retired to stud at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky, Tom Rolfe proved a successful sire.
This page was last modified 14:11, 18 August 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Rolfe   (202 words)

  
 Tom Rolfe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A winner of 16 of his 31 starts, with total earnings of $671,297, Tom Rolfe was champion of his age at 3, when, ridden byfuture Hall ofFame jockey, Ron Turcotte, he counted the classic Preakness Stakes among his victories.
Retired to stud at ClaiborneFarm in Paris, Kentucky, Tom Rolfe proved a successful sire.
Tom Rolfedied in 1989 and was buried at the farm's Marchmont cemetery.
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 News articles for Rolfe, Iowa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
White was born Nov. 11, 1921, in Rolfe, the son of Louis A. Sr.
Mervyn Rolfe, chief executive of Dundee and Tayside Chamber of Commerce, said it was hard to assess the economic impact of the football club on the city, but...
MERVYN ROLFE, chief executive of the local Chamber of Commerce, said it had been known for some time that a number of clubs in Scotland were facing financial...
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 Beamrider   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tom knew he wanted the gameplay to take place on beams, but he didn’t have the vision of what the game would be like.
Tom looked up at the ceiling as he rolled back and forth on an office chair.
Tom advocated fixed attack patterns, which would allow the player to watch the enemy and get some sense for the general shape of what he might do next.
www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Lair/9260/beamride.html   (424 words)

  
 Allscifi.com Book Review
In 1946, injured WWII veteran John Rolfe discovers a dimensional portal to an alternate Earth where the North American continent is untouched by modern civilization.
Rolfe gathers his former Baker Company buddies to develop the natural resources of the new dimension.
Tom decides to help the Rolfes defend their community and joins forces with Adrienne in fighting the insurgents.
www.allscifi.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=90004   (204 words)

  
 News on Rolfe, Iowa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bob Rolfe, co-chair of the Litigation, Intellectual Property and Antitrust Team of which the IP Group is a part, commented on the rapid growth and success of...
Longtime Councilman Don Rolfe was the fifth vote-getter in Tuesday's election with 136 votes, and was not re-elected to another term in office.
Marie Rolfe is chairwoman of the committee in charge of the arrangements for the dance.
www.linkmorgue.org /us/IA/Rolfe.html   (4949 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 2009, Rolfe's granddaughter, investigating a threat to her family's benign feudal despotism, encounters a California fish and game officer tracking down the source of certain mysterious birds and beasts.
Specifically, since Rolfe lives in California, he steps into an alternate universe California as the location on the other side of the portal is the same as in our universe.
Tom is our protagonist for the rest of the book which starts well, but flags as it nears the end.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451459083?v=glance   (3034 words)

  
 Tom Rolfe - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tom Rolfe - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 16:34, 11 May 2005.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Tom Rolfe contains research on
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Tom_Rolfe   (222 words)

  
 SF Muni: CAC Full Committee, February 13, 2003 minutes
Rolfe expressed the view that Motion e is a more comprehensive version of Motion d and suggested that both motions be consolidated.
Rolfe suggested that Council consider adding to the Cable Car Transfers a policy recommendation that passengers are allowed to transfer from regular Muni lines to Cable Car by paying the difference in the fare.
Rolf explained that currently if a passenger uses a weekly pass on the Cable Car an additional dollar has to be paid which is the same principle previously suggested.
www.sfmuni.com /cms/brd/cac/cm030213.htm   (8239 words)

  
 Tom Rolfe - Senior Vice President, ASG Financial Corp.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tom Rolfe - Senior Vice President, ASG Financial Corp.
Tom works with ASG to present investment opportunities to qualified investors in his global network.
Through his extensive operating experience in Canada and around the world, Tom has developed a talent for running businesses effectively and optimizing their value.
www.asgfinancialcorp.com /team-thomas_rolfe.asp   (81 words)

  
 Rolfe Family Genealogy Forum (Page 3)
Re: Rolfe India/England 1800's - Pamela Rolfe 8/10/01
Re: ROLFE -Writtle/Chelmsford, Essex to Aust - Dianne Anderson 8/04/04
Thomas Rolfe and Elizabeth Was - CLAYTON L. Re: Thomas Rolfe and Elizabeth Was - Carol Nortje 4/04/04
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 Arlington Park horse racing in Illinois - Chicago Barn to Wire
Next in Bailey's list of weights at 116 pounds and likely to go to the post in the Tom Rolfe is Richard F. Rudolph's Castlewood, who was a length and three-quarters winner in his most recent trip to the post in an allowance race at Arlington September 26.
Gene Voss & Leslie Grimm's Frazee's Folly, assigned 115 pounds in the Tom Rolfe, finished second to Castlewood in their last outing and is expected to face that rival again.
Ed Wright & Miles Childers' Double Affair, a well-beaten fifth behind Chicago Six in the $100,000 Prairie Meadows Handicap September 3 in Iowa, is assigned 114 pounds in the Tom Rolfe, as is Yoshio Fujita's E Z Glory, a winner of his last two in a row.
www.barntowire.com /2001/APnotes011011.shtml   (979 words)

  
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Tom Rolfe was a champion 2yo himself but then went on to sire 49 stakes winners but has headed a chain of sires known for their broodmares.
Tom Rolfe is the broodmare sire of more than 100 stakes winners including; Forty Niner, Nininski, Notebook, Take Me Out, Silverbulletday.
Ribot; Is a very strong turf influence, sired over 9 Champions, including Tom Rolfe and Arts And Letters.
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 New Chef-de-Race: Ninsiki
NINISKI (who died in 1998) was foaled in 1976, by Nijinsky II (Classic/Solid chef-de-race) out of the Tom Rolfe (Classic/Professional chef-de-race) mare Virginia Hills.
Solid/Professional and Classic/Professional (like his damsire Tom Rolfe) are the two categories to consider.
The other alternative is to leave Niniski out altogether with the justification that both his sire (Nijinsky) and damsire (Tom Rolfe) already adequately imply Niniski’s influence in the context of the Dosage system.
www.chef-de-race.com /dosage/chefs-de-race/niniski.htm   (2016 words)

  
 Genealogy.com: Rolfe- Debbie Mccallum, Winnipeg,Manitoba Canada
Tom is also related to the Maw family.He has 2 nephews, Billy and Alex.
Tom Rolfe,also has 1 son named Billie or William, and
I hope The right Rolfe family members could help me with my research.
www.genealogy.com /genealogy/users/m/c/c/Debbie-Mccallum/index.html   (162 words)

  
 Arts and Letters: 1969 Horse of the Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The last champion bred by the great Italian breeder Frederico Tesio, who had also bred Nearco, he was undefeated throughout a 16 race European career, with his victories including two runnings of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
He never raced in America, but when he was imported to stand stud at Darby Dan Farm, he sired such top horses as Graustark and Tom Rolfe.
Tom Rolfe won the Preakness Stakes, the Arlington Classic, and the American Derby en route to a divisional championship in 1965.
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 Kentucky Derby 129 | 2003 | Derby History | Derby Charts | Years | 1965 |
The latter, away slowly and unhurried for six furlongs, moved up along the inside on leaving the backstretch, angled out sharply to launch his closing rally on the final turn and, responding to strong handling, was slowly getting to the winner.
TOM ROLFE, in hand for a half mile, moved up boldly along the inside to engage the top flight at the half mile ground, dropped back a bit on rounding the second turn only to come again while under extreme pressure and finished gamely.
NATIVE CHARGER, bumped while between horses entering the first turn, quickly recovered to remain in contention while along the outside to loom menacingly on the stretch turn and finished evenly in a good effort.
www.kentuckyderby.com /2003/derby_history/derby_charts/years/1965.html   (327 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: The Hazing (2004)
Rolfe Kanefsky—relentless low-budget B-movie director—made one of the smartest, funniest and certainly one of the most underrated horror films of the past twenty years, which was There's Nothing Out There back in 1991.
One is a fact-based chat featuring Kanefsky and producer Tom Seidman, and the other one of those goofy cast gatherings with, this time with Tiffany Shepis, Nectar Rose, Jeremy Maxwell, and Philip Andrew.
Rolfe Kanefsky's The Hazing is, quite simply, a lot of fun.
www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/226457   (1174 words)

  
 Mongoose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He picks up some additional inbreeding to Tom Rolfe another solid North American inbreeding pattern.
That comes through his second dam Salt Spring, a daughter of Salt Marsh, he a son of Tom Rolfe.
Perhaps the most well known name in the distaff family of Mongoose is the immortal Cigar since Mongoose and Cigar share a common ancestor in Jungle Queen.
klatoo.addr.com /mongoose.htm   (501 words)

  
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Prospector out of File by Tom Rolfe Bred by: CLAIBORNE FARM In NA 1994 11 0 1 2 $12,421 (SSI=.94) Search Dkbbr,C 87 by Mr.
Prospector out of File by Tom Rolfe Bred by: CLAIBORNE FARM Sent To Japan Gleam B,C 92 by Wild Again out of Gild by Mr.
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 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) : Castlewood favorite in Tom Rolfe Handicap.(Sports) @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Richard F. Rudolph's Castlewood, who unleashed a bold stretch run to win in allowance company here Sept. 26, should rule the choice based on that performance when he highlights a field of six in Sunday's headliner at Arlington, the $45,000 Tom Rolfe Handicap.
The middle-distance affair for 3-year-olds and upward is named for the first horse to win the Mid-America Triple at Arlington Park.
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 Arlington Park horse racing in Illinois - Chicago Barn to Wire
Castlewood May Be King in Sunday's $45,000 Tom Rolfe Handicap
Richard F. Rudolph's Castlewood, who unleashed a bold stretch run to win in allowance company here September 26, should rule the choice based on that performance when he heads a field of six in Sunday's headliner at Arlington, the $45,000 Tom Rolfe Handicap.
Facing those two in the Tom Rolfe are Yoshio Fujita's E Z Glory, 114; Mark Corrado & Mark Hanna's On Your Mark, 114; James W. Orr Jr.'s A'fire, 112; and Alumni Horse Venture, LLC's Del Mar Danny.
www.barntowire.com /2001/APnotes011012.shtml   (1020 words)

  
 Foolish Dream Farm- Sandy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The list of pure speed Sires (compiled in 1983) on her pedigree includes: Nijinsky ll, Storm Bird, Storm Cat, Secretariat, Northern Dancer, Bold Ruler, Ribot, Round Table, Shecky Greene, Crimson Satan, Tom Rolfe and Noholme II.
Her Large Heart Sires, which include several 'extraordinary'  Large Heart Sires are; Princequillo, Secretariat, Storm Cat, Tom Rolfe, Nijinsky ll, Northern Dancer, Ribot, Sir Gallahad lll, Bull Lea, Nasrullah, Nearco, Roman, Round Table, Bold Ruler, Neartic and Bull Page.
A note about Ribot: bred by Federico Tesio, considered one of the greatest breeders ever, his 'aim' was to "breed and raise a racehorse, which over any distance, could carry the heaviest weight in the shortest time." Unbeaten Ribot, personified Tesio's quest for a "superhorse".
www.foolishdreamfarm.com /fdf3.html   (417 words)

  
 Bolling, Branham, Edwards, Gibson/Horne, Puckett, Sutherland and related families - A Bravenet.com Forum
Barb; Just wanted you to know from my research (Pocahontas "connections")that I have found many descendants of Tom and Jane Rolfe in Nelson County, Va. (Nelson County even has a Bowling Lane (Drive) off of Rt.
and Bill Rolfe is County Adminisrator of Bedford County (east of Roanoke, Va.).
He has dark skin of Native American,; very bright guy (not sure of his family history)...
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 reviewjournal.com -- News: Authorities pin hopes on Tasers
Injuries are common when officers fight with suspects, but injuries are minimal when Tasers are used, Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Tom Rolfe said.
Young said he was first introduced to the Taser in February during a demonstration at a meeting of police chiefs from around the country.
The department spent $41,286 in Clark County revenue to leverage a $371,579 federal grant to make the purchase, said Andy Anderson, grant writer for the Police Department.
www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2003/Dec-29-Mon-2003/news/22843732.html   (970 words)

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