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LETTERS

When history comes to life

Thank you for including the beautiful picture of the stallion Leo in “The End of the Open Range” (Conformation Insights, EQUUS 499).

My first horse (which I did not get until I was 20 years old) was a Leo great-granddaughter and she looked exactly like him. Her name was Val’s Robin and she was a daughter of Rod Tag, granddaughter of Leo

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