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John Henry was a steel driving horse.

  • Mar. 9th, 2007 at 10:14 AM
me and a troll
via [info]buymeaclue,

John Henry, the stubbornest race horse in America (and one of the winningest) turns 32 today.

Still too mean to die.

Grand old bastard.

(Come to think of it, he's five years older than Matthew Gray Gubler, whose birthday this also is.)
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[info]ratmmjess wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 03:23 pm (UTC)
32? I didn't know horses got that old. Good for him!

"I remember Secretariat, you little punk! You think you're fast? You're nothing!"
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 03:31 pm (UTC)
He is, in fact, so old they gave him his birthday back. (All thoroughbred racehorses legally age a year on January 1.)

He's aptly named.
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[info]fidelioscabinet wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 04:54 pm (UTC)
He has a biography at Wikipedia, which includes this remark: "As a youngster, the equine John Henry had a habit of tearing steel water and feed buckets off stall walls and stomping them flat."
It also says he'd check the Tote Board after the race--they aren't sure if he was checking his time, or the pay-off on the bets.

Here's another Bad Horse.
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 04:57 pm (UTC)
I have a fondness for anyone too goddamned mean to quit fighting.
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[info]fidelioscabinet wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 05:03 pm (UTC)
This would be your horse, then.

If I read the pedigree correctly, the birthday boy (John Henry, not Matthew) descends from Boston via his son Lexington, who was an ancestor of Man O' War. So speed and attitude have both been passed down.
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 05:14 pm (UTC)
It is so, I believe.

I hope he makes it three more years.

I imagine him, shaggy and swaybacked and fat, trudging around his pasture, and somebody says "who is that old nag?"

And somebody standing near says "hush your mouth." *g*
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[info]kelliem wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 05:37 pm (UTC)
Wonderful article!

You know, if Illya was a horse...
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 05:43 pm (UTC)
It is so. Undersized, bitchy, and very good at his job.
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[info]jonquil wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 06:13 pm (UTC)
http://redscharlach.livejournal.com/120637.html

You may thank me later.
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 06:21 pm (UTC)
...
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[info]klia wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 07:20 pm (UTC)
You had to go and remind me I find an actor *that* young attractive!

*koff*
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2007 07:22 pm (UTC)
You and half the internet. *g*
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[info]heyoka wrote:
Mar. 11th, 2007 04:54 am (UTC)
Be grateful you're not in Hary Potter movie fandom? ;)
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[info]klia wrote:
Mar. 11th, 2007 07:44 am (UTC)
Except I'm into Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, too. :D
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[info]heyoka wrote:
Mar. 11th, 2007 08:06 am (UTC)
? Who's young in that?
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[info]klia wrote:
Mar. 11th, 2007 08:28 am (UTC)
Calamy and Blakeney (Max Benitz was 18 and Max Pirkis was 14, and is now, thankfully, 18). I wasn't *into* them, but I loved their characters a lot, and every time my brain went, "Cute, cute, cute!" I had to tell it to STFU. ;)
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