Lordi, 56, filed last October, and was trying mightily to keep his house, horse and Porsche.

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The horse didn't run as a 2-year-old, so to keep the unbeaten streak Verrazano will have to buck a trend that's lasted more than a century: No horse since Apollo in 1882 has won without racing as a juvenile.

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According to the Lavaca County Sheriff's Office, the father and his family had gathered for a horse shoeing last Saturday at their ranch where they keep horses and chickens.

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The program provides a two-category drug system in an attempt to draw a clear line between therapeutic medications and banned substances in an attempt to keep horsemen from being punished for legal medications that remain in a horse's system before a race.

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No other stallion has come close to that, say experts in cutting, a sport wherein a rider and horse "cut" a single animal from a cattle herd, then try to keep it from rejoining the pack.

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