Noble Causeway

Longtime owner and breeder Leonard Riggio, founder of the bookstore giant Barnes & Noble, passed away Tuesday in New York City, according to the Wall Street Journal. He was 83 and had been battling Alzheimer's disease. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Riggio acquired a single Barnes & Noble store in Manhattan in 1971 and turned the company into the country's largest bookstore chain, but he entered into racing almost by accident with a single purchase in 2001. "My wife and daughter love the show horse world and they would...