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Exotic Menu. The ordeal over, Elizabeth and Philip recessed for lunch along the Narayani River. The exotic menu: black partridge, florican crane, wild boar shashlik, shredded venison curry. Then they went after bigger game: a female rhinoceros, spotted plodding through the jungle, calf in tow. Prized by poachers (who grind the horns into a powder that is valued as an alleged aphrodisiac), the one-horned rhino has almost disappeared from Nepal. But Marksman Home was not to be denied. With the help again of Bonham Carter and Adeane, he quickly dispatched the lumbering beast, left its calf to fend...
...Roosevelt Raceway, N.Y., the Arden Homestead Stable's Florican, a six-year-old trotter with nothing to show for eight previous starts this year, went as a 15-to-1 shot into the invitational $25,000 American Trotting Championship. When the mile-and-a-quarter trot was over, Florican had not only picked up a $12,500 winner's purse but had also smashed the world mark for the distance by more than four seconds with a time...
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