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By Betsy Parker
Times Newspapers Staff Writer
Malcolm Barr remembers the rush of adrenaline, the chaise of excitement he felt as a boy in England, standing railside at local point-to-point races and watching the horses leap past as they cleared high hedges and stiff hurdles. He heard as much as felt the thundering hooves; he smelled the horse sweat and leather, he tasted the rolls of dust raised by the racing pack.
And he saw a game custom-made for him.
Alas, “... it was an impossible dream, to own one of those horses,” Barr recalls.
But, 60 years and three careers later, Barr has found a way to invest in the
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