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“He’s been well received already”
Telemon Thoroughbreds is first and foremost a stallion farm, but studmaster Dan Fletcher was reticent to add a new boy to the Queensland farm’s roster just for the sake of it. The game’s too hard as it is and the family owned Telemon doesn’t have the outside financial backing to be able to play the... Read More
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Emirate
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