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During the steeplechase race, a big bay gelding named Patrick’s Dream fell after clearing a jump and broke his front leg—both front legs, someone later told Charlie—and they had to put him down. Luckily I didn’t see that. I just saw the truck dragging the harness go out onto the field. Always an upsetting sight. Briefly I wondered whether it was the leaper’s horse who had broken his legs but it wasn’t. The leaper had been riding a gray horse. I have always been partial to gray horses.