Bloodlines
Hollywood Dun It
Reining's great sire was named for a colour he may not have been, kept being promoted after he died, and lies beside a deaf horse who never heard the word whoa.
Bloodlines
Doc Bar
A racehorse who earned $95 in four starts, was compared to a fat hen, and ended up behind almost every cutting pedigree written since. With a dentist, and a lawn.
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Bloodlines
Metallic Cat
A red roan bought with a truck as collateral, a stallion named because he hid behind his mother, and why a Quarter Horse name is a family tree in twenty characters.
Bloodlines
Peppy San Badger
A sorrel all of Texas called Little Peppy, the ranch that says every horse it owns goes back to him, and a bronze outside Gate 42 that took three years to make.
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