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DEXTER IN HARNESS AND UNDER SADDLE

n excellent and evocative Currier and Ives portrait of with Budd Doble. The horse’s flattened ears and oversized, wild-looking eye are conventions of 19th-century racing art. Doble has been recognized as the finest “whip” ever to hold the “ribbons.” He is credited with being a master of pace, knowing just when

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