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the feed tubs twice daily. Spending hard hours in the pursuit of knowledge and love of his charges, he receives no great salary and occasionally his bed, board and a ride. He is the indispensable part of it all.
The owner risks his horse, the trainer his reputation, the groom his livelihood, and the rider his life for fleeting moments in the sun of a win.
Finally, what is the part of our silent partner, the horse himself. Perhaps it was long ago said best this way:
“Out from the past, the dim bloody, shifting past, came this noble animal, the horse, side by side with man, fighting with him the battles of progress, bearing with him the burdens of the centuries. Down the long hard road, through flint or mire, through swamp or sand, wherever there has been a footprint also will be seen a hoof print. They have been one and inseparable, the aim and the object, the means and the end. And if the time shall ever come, as some boastingly declare, when the one shall breed away from the other, the puny relic of a once perfect manhood will not live long enough to trace the record of it on the tablet of the time.”
Virginia and its people would not have happened without him.
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