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done on several tracks. I always know what horses do, at least I did then, though I don't now. I was brought up in a horse loving family. I like to go to the races to this day, but I don't have time to. He'd picked this horse off a streetcar. That was the interesting thing of it. He'd seen this horse in a horsecar in Baltimore, which didn't abolish its horsecars until very late. He saw this horse, decided it was a wonderful horse and bought the horse for a small sum. It was a horse being used to pull a horse car. He had picked this horse, hadn't said anything to anyone about it, and paid very little for it. He took the horse out, fed him up well, rested him, gave him a good home. Then he began to tell his trainer boy to ride him around and he rode himself in the fields. He found that its gait was just what its gait would be - beautiful, smooth. He gathered it from the configuration of the horse - the shape of its legs, the size of its haunches, the posture of its forelegs, the back. A horse's speed and capacity to perform is very largely based upon its actual anatomical build. Black had picked him from the way he looked. He found his motion was perfect.

I never bet on horses. I like to see the horses run. I love a good horse. I do to this day. I love to see them operate. My father loved to see them operate, too, and I





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