open the damn stud book!

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We won't have another....

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I have not wanted to be talking about it, because I didn't want to be a wet rag about the possibility of a Triple Crown winner, but I don't like this horse. Didn't from the git. You might not know about this, but many thoroughbred stallions are outright horrors to be around, and it's pretty clear we've got that going on with this dude. The chain under the lip. That spells S-H-I-T-H-E-A-D. No. Really. Stand outside a pen containing a thoroughbred stallion and chances are every fantasy you ever had about Black Beauty will be ground into the mud in a trice. Some of them even bite off bits of their own flesh. This, you should know, is why some racehorses are gelded. Nothing but this level of awful could induce someone to dispense with the prospective stud fees of a possible winner.

I think I'm going to go back to rooting for Union Rags. He doesn't seem to be a shithead.
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