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Gordon posted an update Monday, Sep 19, 2011, 8:11pm EDT, 14 years, 1 month ago
Beth, um, er, following on from Bill’s observation, a stallion has one of those, arrrrh, and a mare does not.
Today’s thoroughbreds all descend from three Arabian stallions imported into England in, I believe, the 17th century. (Googling will narrow down my faulty memory to a date.)
Anyway, it would take a true horseperson to tell the difference. (The Arabian has more flared nostrils and a ’finer’ bone structure, among other differences.)
