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To: the OlLine Rebel

Sorry if posting the wrong picture offended anyone. Google is the one that is misleading.


214 posted on 07/21/2013 8:01:25 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: Spunky

I’m not offended. I just tire of inaccuracies spreading, giving the wrong impression. You are hardly the first person with the wrong Helen.

An example of how bad this is is a picture erroneously declared to be of Man O’War on the track. EBay sellers continue this nonsense which IIRC started because of a mistake in a famous book on the horse decades ago. Anyone who knows the basics of MOW knows there is no way it could be MOW - they know his silks completely different, he always had his mane braided and he was never in a race with as many as 19 horses (saddle cloth). The horse actually is known, a filly named Step Lightly who won the Futurity MOW’s most famous year. But people keep perpetuating the error and some are taken in and buy the photos.

Anyway, no problem. Just good to let people know the truth!


217 posted on 07/21/2013 12:03:31 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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