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Intro
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Huddled knots of owners and trainers confer nervously as the horses stalk long-leggedly like a counter-clockwise merry-goround. Listen to the flavorful talk of speed and danger. Taste the exitement.
Soon a cluster of silk-clad jockey boys bounces into the paddock. Like Lilliputian sprites they float on horseback and spirit away.
Smell the horse sweat and leather. Feel your pulse increase as the flag drops and the race starts.
Use your senses.
This special edition of the annual Fall Steeplechase guide carries the reader on an exploration. Climb aboard and discover a new dimension of understanding of the five, or six — depending on how you look at it, senses of the horse. Sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing work to make a horse what he is. Because a horse is flighty and easily startled, does that make him a “better^ racehorse or a faster runner? Does diet really matter to performance? Do horses really “see” ghosts? Where do horses fall on an intelligence scale? Can a horse read his rider’s mind?
Uncover answers to those questions, and more, inside. As
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