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By Betsy Parker
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, D C. — A team of locally based Belgian horses nearly upstaged President Bush and the Israeli prime minister at an event Monday at the White House.
Midge Harmon’s Karry and Dempsey, a pair of matching light chestnut purebreds more accustomed to carting hayrides and wedding parties, delivered the official White *House Christmas tree to the North Rjrtico Monday morning. The 20-foot-high Fraser Fir was delivered on a four-wheeled wagon driven by Scott Harmon.
“Everything went great,” Midge Harmon said. “The horses looked beautiful, and they were perfectly behaved. Mrs. Bush seemed impressed.”
President Bush and Middle East leaders attending a peace conference had to wait for the tree delivery ceremony to end before taking part in a press conference in the Oval Office.
Karry and Dempsey, in gleaming black formal harness replete with bells and brass fittings, were braided with red ribbons. Scott Harmon wore a forr
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