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es hear the affection. Dark thoroughbred heads bob eagerly for their feed.
Simmons’ morning routine is smoothed by 45 years of practice. He has operated Dorothy Smithwick’s steeplechase training center, a 1,900acre working farm east of town, his entire adult life. Even his childhood was spent at the estate; his father, Walter, farmed the land for Smithwick’s father Sam Fred.
Simmons continues the pre-dawn rounds. Though the order is not logged, not part of Smithwick’s scribbled notation on the shedrow’s chalkboard, Simmons attends to each stabled horse in turn before returning to the coldly lit barnyard to bring others in from their fields.
The early morning routine is cursory — feed in and move on, Simmons explains: “You gotta get the horses into their breakfast so they have time to eat and relax” before training hours. He leaves them to it. It is later in the day, he adds, that they get far more attention:
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