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A HORSE FOR ALMOST EVERY DISTANCE

YESTERDAY’S HEROES
Graham Buddry recalls the amazingly versatile Monkerhostin

Graham Buddry
From the earliest days when one man with a horse challenged another to a race it was simply a two horse affair over whatever distance they decided to race.
As such, those equine stars would be required to sprint one day, race two miles the next time and perhaps ten miles the time after that. The whole point was that really special horses were exceptionally rare and were thus not only required to put their high reputation on the line over varying distances but most often they would succeed too, ...

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