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Old 01-20-2008, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance
I can imagine he probably is.

I know what you're all saying about where a horse is 'from'. It's a difficult argument. Over here we have plenty of horses bred in America, but if they happened to go back to America and race (for the English trainer), I know I'd refer to the horse as being an English horse.

Both ways work, I suppose.
Not sure I buy that. If Secretariat was sold at age 4 and moved to France, raced there and came back to the US in the same year, can you imagine him being called a French horse? That would be cause for a riot with hardcore hr fans. The most I can see would be "French-owned and/or trained" imo
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