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...that the horse Authentic has won three Olympic medals and two World Equestrian Games medals?
... that colitis-X is a fatal form of acute colitis in horses, with severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, shock and dehydration, and near 100% mortality in less than 24 hours?
... that American racehorse Goldsmith Maid set a world harness racing record at the age of 17?
... that the American thoroughbred racehorse Meridian won the Kentucky Derby in 1911, establishing a new record time?