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Significance
“It’s called line-breeding when it works, and in-breeding when it doesn’t,” is the old line, the sardonic joke that salves some of the wounds from the capricious lottery of making horses. Fine lines indeed. They’re being put under the microscope again, and in this instance starting to bear results, with a horse named Significance –... Read More
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The Ron Hutchinson story and Aussies abroad (part 2)
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