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horse in depth. It attempts to answer the question: What does it take to make a winner? What puzzle pieces are required for that finished product you see celebrated on Saturdays?

Begin with a crystalvisioned breeder.

Everyone knows there's little chance of grabbing the gold ring in the thoroughbred breeding business. Oh yes, every few years some summer sales yearling gets a multimillion dollar bid, but odds are that blue-blooded, high-priced baby racehorse can't run any faster than his field-bred cousins across state lines. Thoroughbred breeding has proved an inexact science, more of an art.

So the breeder is the first piece of this puzzle.

From verdant fields by his mother's side, our nascent steeplechaser heads to equine nursery school for breaking and training. Exercise riders get in on the making of our youngster — another piece to

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