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BUSINESS, Page 51Business NotesAUCTIONSCalumet Finds A White Knight
In baseball, it's the New York Yankees. In basketball, the
Boston Celtics. In Thoroughbred racing, it's Calumet Farm. Since
1931 the Lexington, Ky., breeding farm and racing stable has
produced two Triple Crown horses, nine Kentucky Derby champions
and six Horse of the Year Eclipse Award winners.
But 10 years of mismanagement buried the farm under $127
million of debt, and owner Bertha Wright, who inherited Calumet
in 1982, filed for bankruptcy protection in July. Last week all
850 rolling acres of Kentucky bluegrass, 15 red-and-white barns,
a 14-room mansion and assorted trophies and memorabilia went on
the auction block. Polish-born horseman and aviation magnate
Henryk de Kwiatkowski, 64, got the 770-acre main parcel with a
$17 million bid. De Kwiatkowski, who also paid $210,000 for the
Calumet name, announced that he would keep the farm's staff and
operate it as before. "When I saw this place being dismantled,
it was an offense to me," he told more than 3,000 cheering
spectators. "Not a whisker of this farm will be changed."