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Old 04-13-2011, 03:08 PM
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The Dwyers were hard bettors and their horses worked for a living. Today they would be call "butchers" by the internet throngs and in fact they would be right. The Dwyers started out as butchers and were infamous for selling rancid meat to the Union Army in the Civil War.
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