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Bad Sport: Horse Hitman

October 13, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

The new Netflix docuseries “Bad Sport” revisits some of outrageous sport scandals in recent memory, including episode 5, which covers the horse killings for insurance scandal of the 1980s. While the memory of the killings — and the people it brought down — are still fresh in my memory, for many younger riders, this may […]

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Lost . . . and Found! The Tale of Good Guinness and the Impostor.

March 13, 2009.Reading time 5 minutes.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. In a story that echos the fairy tale of the Prince and the Pauper, a drama unfolded over the Internet over the course of the past few days when it was determined that a grand prix jumper delivered to a sales barn on the East Coast was uncovered as […]

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