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    RACEHORSES AND RIDING HORSES

    Jul 24, 2018 1 minute

    Southerners value easy-gaited horses who yet often, through their Hobby ancestry, possess a turn of speed. Nineteenth-century breeders deliberately used good Virginia Hobby or Mountain Horse mares with Thoroughbred stallions to produce half-bred Colonial Quarter Running

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