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Racehorse
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Not leg weary as any other horse would have been, the gallant gray trotted full-flight down to the wire. Each powerful stride as strong and long as the one before it. He devoured the track one magnificent stroke after another, then flashed under the wire, pulling the roar of the crowd along in his wake.
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― Greyhound: The Remarkable Story of the Harness-Racing Horse Who Inspired a Nation
― Greyhound: The Remarkable Story of the Harness-Racing Horse Who Inspired a Nation
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But for all its miseries, there was an unmistakable allure to the jockey's craft... Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relative weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a jockey flew over the tack together, there were moments in which the man's mind wedded itself to the animal's body to form something greater t
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