Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white and run by a veteran drill sergeant of a foreman who has Vanderbilt's and Winfrey's mandate to buy whatever he needs to keep the race horses fit and happy. Stall 6 is the royal suite. The Dancer, afflicted with the typical thin skin of the grey, suffers from the heat and can't stand flies, so there are fans to keep the air moving through the stall and an automatic fly-spraying system for the entire barn...
When he went back into Stall 6 to resume his career, the Dancer was a noticeably different horse from the one of a year before. He had put on hardly any weight, but the 1,200 Ibs. had plainly hardened. The dark grey had begun to lighten around the flanks; the head was now more on the white side of grey than on the black (if he lives long enough, the Dancer will turn snow white). Standing, he had a massive, granite look?a sculptured masterpiece waiting for a pedestal...
...afternoon's business. Bernie Everson, the Dancer's regular exercise boy, mounts and, with Winfrey in the lead on a palomino pony, walks the Dancer slowly out to the big track. From the stands, the dockers can see a quarter of a mile away that the Big Grey is out for a gallop. Another Vanderbilt horse, Find, jogs ahead and then breaks into a gallop. Everson follows with the Big Grey. "I got the Dancer," cries one of the dockers, flicking the stem of his stopwatch. Effortlessly, the big legs stretch out, and the long grey frame glides past...
Though given to rough playfulness that can easily hurt a man (he once blacked Winfrey's eye merely by lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That...
...official veterinarian arrives to make sure the grey horse's lip tattoo matches the one listed for Native Dancer (F6888), takes his temperature (99.4) and pulse...