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Dark Return Grade I steeplechase winner Dark Equation on comeback trail by katie bo williams

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Forget the high-octane, Lazarus-style Seabiscuit-comes-back-and-wins-theBig-’Cap comeback. Doug Fout has bigger fish to fry with Dark Equation. Fout plans to use the bay gelding’s comeback campaign this summer as a springboard for his swan song, a flat race next spring. “I’d like to have him for my daughter to ride in one flat race,” Fout said. “I would like to have him be her first ride.” Sometime before that, Fout would also like to win the Grade I New York Turf Writers Cup. Just as a prep. Fout’s barn favorite, who won the Turf Writers’ in 2008, is a fixture in the Oklahoma Annex. He can usually be found in the stall closest to the tackroom, with owner Peggy Steinman sitting guard in a lawn chair and a few hangers-on loving on him. Even at 9, Dark Equation still sports a sweet, baby face and a predilection for cuddling. There’s no getting around it: Dark Equation, or Darkie, is spoiled rotten. “He’s such a character. He waits for somebody to get to the barn every

morning first thing to turn him out because he gets mad as a snake. He won’t eat any breakfast, pins his ears, gets his lip poked out. You’ve got to turn him out in his paddock the minute you walk in the barn. Man, if you don’t turn him out, he is a miserable sucker,” Fout said in a tone that suggested he would never think of allowing such a catastrophe to occur. Twelve months ago, a stress fracture incurred during the Grade II A.P. Smithwick put Dark Equation’s return to his throne at the Annex in jeopardy. “He finished, but you could tell something was wrong at the bottom turn,” Fout said. “He always spars, he always jumps brilliant, he’s never put a foot wrong. You could tell he was just miserable coming down the backside.” Fout said Steinman was praying they could bring the old campaigner back. A month after the A.P., another set of x-rays revealed the injury to be healing well. Steinman and Fout started thinking about dusting off his tack. The second week of January, Dark Equation stepped back onto Fout’s training track

A Grade I winner at Saratoga in 2008, Dark Equation eyes a return to form in 2010.

in The Plains, Va. The rest of the ride was smooth sailing. “We were perfect the whole way, easy ride, no bumps,” Fout said. “He’s our favorite. We wouldn’t dare taking a chance running him if he wasn’t a 110 percent.” “My goal with him is to win the Turf Writers’. That’s what I’ve been prepping him for since January,” Fout revealed. Dark Equation has made two starts

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on the comeback trail, a 1 1/4-mile flat race at Colonial Downs in which he finished fifth and a Grade III over fences at the same course June 11. Dark Equation finished third, a performance that thrilled Fout. “I was tickled to death with him. We knew there was a lot of speed in there. I told [rider Jeff Murphy] to drop him out See STEEPLECHASE page 16

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the back, don’t get into the race until the bottom turn. We closed the gap up, he made up a huge amount of ground. He jumped fantastic. And he’s jumping even better now. He’s got a great bounce in him.” Fout targets the Aug. 5 A.P. Smithwick at 2 1/16 miles again as a prep for the 2 3/8-mile Turf Writers Aug. 26. “He likes that longer distance, the A.P. might be a little short for him. If he’s in the first three [in the A. P.] I’ll be tickled to death,” Fout said. Fout hopes the campaign will be Dark Equation’s swan song, preferring not to run horses past their 9-year-old year. “My dream is to get through this year with him and I hope that he finishes up in one piece and I’d like to have him for my daughter,” Fout said. Caroline Fout, a fox hunter and intermediate-level eventer, celebrated her 16th birthday this summer. Fout admitted to some nerves about sending his little girl into the fray of a race, but took comfort in the trustworthiness of his old pal. “The thing about him is you just sit there and steer. He’s just a pushbutton,” Fout said. Fout intends to give Dark Equation one more schooling session and one more piece of serious work in the next week. • In addition to Dark Equation, the Smithwick nominees include Arcadius, Chess Board, Dalucci, Divine Fortune, Dr. Bloomer, Dynantonia, Planets Aligned, Slip Away, The Price Of Love and Your Sum Man.

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Steeplechase Scorecard Here’s the list of who might show up at Saratoga. NW2 or start for $30,000 claiming price. Races Aug. 12 and Sept. 2.

Nationbuilder

Dalucci enjoyed his flat spin at Open House.

Mrs. Calvin Houghland • Jonathan Sheppard Second-year hurdler has faced stars of division

Move Up Stable • Kathy McKenna The second best 4-year-old in the country

Arch Hero

Bill Pape • Jonathan Sheppard Have to love durability but finds water deep

Barnstorming

Oakwood Farm • Julie Gomena Three-for-three for hottest trainer in nation

Arcadia Stable • Jack Fisher If you’re bored, watch his move at Penn National

Sermon Of Love

Perry Bolton • Tom Voss Outsider tries to improve his game

Virginia Minstrel

Jonathan Sheppard • Jonathan Sheppard Smart debut win at Colonial against weaker

Irv Naylor • Desmond Fogarty Tricky sort with back class

Dynaskill

Octararo Stable • Bruce Miller Filly might face the boys here, up against it.

Eagle Beagle

Barracuda Stable • Ricky Hendriks Claimer of the year in ’09, not quite like it in ‘10

Easy Red

Dumbarton Farm • Tom Voss Disappointed in Open House try

Four Schools

Mrs. George Ohrstrom • Richard Valentine Hasn’t duplicated Monmouth effort from last fall

Grantor

Caves Farm • Mark O’Dwyer Hard to fault first two tries for new connections

Ground Frost

Alnoff Stable • Tom Voss On the comeback trail from 2009

Hidden Trail

The Fields Stable • Tom Voss Polished performance at Philly Park

Jazz Dance

Susan Mills-Stone • Barbara McWade Made U.S. debut at Colonial, showed little

Jellyberry

Octararo Stable • Bruce Miller Filly has been hard at work this summer on flat

Jogja

Trade Winds Farm • Will Phipps Interesting longshot aims for Aug. 12

Miss Crown

Erna Reingold Stable • Kate Dalton Hard-trying mare runs her race, doubtful to run

Moon Dolly

Mark Dodson • Tom Voss Another mare who logs miles, faces stern test

Parker’s Project

Hudson River Farm • Jonathan Sheppard After tough trips, finally hit lead early and won

Riddle

Sue Sensor • Will Phipps Excuse Ferguson; always dangerous

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Ken and Sarah Ramsey • Tom Voss Claimer ran OK at Colonial, right connections

Saluda Sam

Chadds Ford Stable • Kathy McKenna Found life difficult after breaking maiden

So Amazing

Randleston Farm • Jimmy Day Offered little at Penn, tough sledding here

Straight To It

Sheila Williams, Andre Brewster • Jack Fisher Maiden but has come close in several starts

Swagger Stick

Gil Johnston • Jack Fisher Veteran usually shows up for a check

Twister Crossing

Stewart Strawbridge • Sanna Hendriks Making money on flat, doubtful here

Wantan

Gone Away Farm • Ted Thompson Humbled by Quiet Approval at Open House

Novice/NW3 restricted stakes. Races July 29 and Aug. 19. Birthday Beau

Michele Sanger • Michele Sanger Frontrunner aims at first jump race of season

Call You in Ten

James Piper • Doug Fout The best 4-year-old in the country

Cuse

Karen Gray • Karen Gray Hard-trying claimer never faced likes of these

Indy Run

Zozimus

Dale Thiel • Britt Graham Late-runner sort could struggle with speed here

Open Stakes. $75,000 A.P. Smithwick Aug. 5 and $100,000 New York Turf Writers Aug. 26 Arcadius

Hudson River Farm • Jonathan Sheppard Been away awhile but certainly live on best

Chess Board

Eldon Farm and Brookhill Farm • David Bourke Overmatched in open stakes division

Class Bopper

Rodman Moorhead • Lilith Boucher Dangerous speed, never beaten when finishing

Dalucci

Cherry Knoll Farm • Janet Elliot Just a notch below best but capable of climbing

Dark Equation

Peggy Steinman • Doug Fout Amazing comeback for vet, suits Turf Writers

Divine Fortune

Bill Pape • Jonathan Sheppard Excuse wide run in Ferguson, typical Sheppard

Dr. Bloomer

Irv Naylor • Desmond Fogarty Another who showed off nicely in comeback

Dynantonia

Gregg Ryan • Julie Gomena Classy veteran, capable on best

Planets Aligned

Fox Ridge Farm • Tom Voss Delicately returned to races by Spa master

Seer

EMO Stable • Ernie Oare Claimer will try to climb mountain here

Sheila Williams, Andre Brewster • Jack Fisher Tough task, been away since November

Italian Wedding

Slip Away

Jonathan Sheppard • Jonathan Sheppard Put away after two nice wins this spring

Lead Us Not

Bill Pape • Jonathan Sheppard Needs Sheppard magic to threaten here

Mabou

Ken and Sarah Ramsey • Tom Voss If he settles for a moment, he’s very tough

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Bad manners turn into new career for tough jump mare Miss Crown by katie bo williams

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It wasn’t that Miss Crown didn’t want to be a racehorse, it was just permitting herself to be locked into a starting gate was unacceptable. The usual routine exercise became a daily battle at Donna Freyer’s Camden stable. The daughter of High Yield walked in nice as you please every day, but the minute the gates closed behind her, claustrophobia kicked in and it was the Battle of Waterloo. Freyer tried everything anybody could think of: blindfolds, padding, expert advice, and natural horsemanship. She imported Quality Road’s gate therapist, Bob Duncan. “She defeated Bob Duncan,” Freyer said, with a shake of her head. “I’ve never, ever had anything so bad in the gate in my whole life. I don’t think anybody has.” The routine – Freyer, armed with a fresh new tactic, waited until the end of the day when the spectator population was low and led the filly into the gate. Whereupon Miss Crown broke through the front and dragged Freyer’s assistant like a ragdoll halfway down the track. “She has a very, very high tolerance for pain,” Freyer recalled. “She would look like Ben Hur when she came out of the gate, she was that cut up.” Despite her daily explosions that left everyone panting and exhausted, Miss Crown still managed to worm herself into the hearts of the barn. “Everyone loved her,” Freyer marveled. So Freyer called Bernie and Kate Dalton about her problem filly. “You want to try this over jumps, because it’s not happening with a flat career?” she asked. It turned out to be a good call. The filly broke her maiden in her second start

Sunday, July 18 at Aiken Fall Meet in 2008 and has been knocking on the door in the filly and mare stakes division ever since. Knocking, until the second race at the Saratoga Open House when she ran away with a $15,000 claimer, 8 3/4-lengths ahead of Cuse (Carl Rafter) and Eagle Beagle (Paddy Young). Bernie rode, Kate trained. “At some point you have to look at your horse and whether it needs a little class relief or something to get its head in front - you don’t like to dishearten them,” Kate Dalton said. “That was the thinking with Saratoga, we thought we could be a little bit clever and see if a little bit of class relief could help, which obviously it did.” Miss Crown settled in the back of the pack for the first mile and took control coming out of the final turn, a tactic Dalton said was intentional. “She used to run on the front as a 3-year-old and when she came 4 we started trying to ride her a little different,” Dalton said. “It took a little bit of tweaking but she seems to be really settled now, she’s quite happy to sit off the pace and come running.” The tough-minded 5-year-old now occupies a favored position in her new home as well. “It’s basically Bernie’s horse and I feed it,” Dalton laughed. “There are days when she’s a little bit on the tough, fresh side, but all in all, she’s really come around and she’s pretty darn nice to do anything with at this point.” Owned by Erna Reingold Stable, Miss Crown will likely make her next start in a restricted stakes at Monmouth in the fall. See open house page 20

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• Mark O’Dwyer has worked nearly everywhere there are Thoroughbreds. He broke yearlings in Japan, lived for a year in Australia and spent time in Hong Kong, Italy and England. He spent the last six years in the United States riding flat horses, running a hunter show barn for Howard Wolf in Maryland, and training the odd steeplechase horse. So O’Dwyer knows when he sees a horse he likes. The Irishman liked 5-year-old Grantor, a son of Broken Vow who was struggling on the dirt. O’Dwyer wanted to buy the big bay horse before he made his first start on the turf, but when the horse won, the opportunity closed up. “They ran him in a cheap grass race at Colonial and he won by 7 lengths, and they didn’t want to sell him,” O’Dwyer said. Grantor was unable to maintain his form on the more competitive Laurel oval, however, and O’Dwyer got a second shot at the horse. He jumped on the opportunity to buy the horse for Wolf’s Caves Farm. “I didn’t know he was going to be a jumper,” O’Dwyer admits. “I was just taking a little chance. I liked the way he moved and he had a good attitude. He was just a nice strong individual, well put together. I took a chance. You never quite know if they’re going to make a jumper or not until you put a jump in front of them.” As it transpired, Grantor took to his new career and broke his maiden over fences in his second start. Darren Nagle kept the New York-bred settled behind the runaway pacesetter and drew away after the final fence for a 5-length score over first-time starter Good Request (Xavier Aizpuru) and Steppenwolfer (Jody Petty). “He’s a pretty versatile horse. He can do whatever, come from behind, or even make the running.

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Quiet Approval leads Wantan over the last in the allowance hurdle at the Open House.

We’re learning more about him every time he runs,” O’Dwyer said. “The first couple of times that we ran him, we just wanted to give him a good experience and we dropped him out to the back of the field, and he loves coming from behind, he loves attacking horses.” The competitive bay gelding came out of the race with a swagger to the walk that first attracted O’Dwyer. “He was beaming with confidence,” Dwyer said, beaming with a little pride himself. “He knew he did good. He loves his job.” O’Dwyer knows he hasn’t gotten to the bottom of Grantor. He intends to return the gelding to action August 12 in an allowance jump race at the Spa. He is optimistic about the horse’s chances. “With every race, he keeps getting better and better,” O’Dwyer said. “Hopefully he’ll keep on getting better and better.”

• Kathy McKenna made a bold statement after Quiet Approval’s 8-length victory at Open House. “He’s probably the nicest horse I’ve ever trained,” the trainer said. “I think he might be.” You might classify Quiet Approval as a prodigy, an assessment McKenna would agree with. Though the 4-year-old began his career running a mile and a sixteenth on the all-weather at Woodbine, he has won two out of four starts over fences since beginning his new career for McKenna and Move Up Stable. He finished worse than second only once, in a $25,000 optional claimer at Philadelphia Park when being used up near the lead. “I’ve been blessed to have some good horses in my life and he’s just so young and so smart that it seems like he’s figured it out pretty quickly,” McKenna said. “[The Philadelphia race] was the first time See open house page 21

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he had run over jumps at the flat track. He was confused, he thought he was at the flat track and thought he had to run on the flat. He was sure that he had to run as fast as he could for a flat mile. The horse is the quietest horse, but at Philadelphia Park, his tail was up and he was like, ‘I’m back at the flat track, I have to run as fast as I can for a mile, I know this gig.’ ” At Saratoga, McKenna told jockey Carl Rafter to be sure the intelligent gelding understood that he had to relax. “He dropped him right in and he travelled second and he just had a loop in his reins and the horse just settled,” McKenna said. “Then he was able to just roll on there at the end.” McKenna continues to have high hopes for the lanky son of Quiet American, aiming him at another race at Sara-

Saratoga Open House

Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Sunday, July 18. Turf Firm. 1st. $20,000. Mdn. Hurdle. 2-1/16 Miles. 1. Grantor L 154 Nagle 2. Good Request L 154 Aizpuru 3. Steppenwolfer L 154 Petty 4. Bacetto L 154 Crowley LR. Power Game L 149 Mackenzie PU. Sharps Island L 154 Young PU. Lion’s Double L 147 Dowling Mgn: 5. Time: 3:58:1/5. O: Caves Farm. T: Mark O’Dwyer. B. g. 5, Broken Vow-Senora Claudia, Great Regent. Bred by Stonewall Farm (NY). 2nd. $15,000. Clm. Hurdle. 2-1/16 Miles. $20,000-$15,000 Clm. Price 1. Miss Crown L 138 Dalton 2. Cuse L 148 Rafter 3. Eagle Beagle L 152 Young 4. London Grove L 140 Aizpuru 5. Indy Run L 153 Mackenzie Mgn: 8 3/4. Time: 3:58:3/5. O: Erna Reingold Stable LLC. T: Kate Dalton. Dk. B./Br. m. 5, High Yield-Costly Crown, Peaks And Valleys. Bred by MDS Farm (NY). 3rd. $20,000. Mdn. Hurdle. 2-1/16 Miles. 1. Parker’s Project L 147 Hodsdon 2. Straight To It L 147 Aizpuru 3. Salinja L 154 Petty 4. Bag Of Hammers L 154 Slater 5. Two Ticks L 147 Murphy PU. Belarion L 154 Young PU. Boyhood Dream L 147 Crowley Mgn: 1 1/2. Time: 4:02. O: Hudson River Farm. T: Jonathan Sheppard. Dk. B./Br. g. 4, Parker’s Storm Cat-Let’s Canoodle, Oh Say. Bred by Jonathan Sheppard (PA). 4th. $25,000. Allow. Hurdle. 2-1/16 Miles. (NW2) 1. Quiet Approval L 149 Rafter 2. Wantan (Arg) L 156 Dalton 3. Farndale L 137 Aizpuru 4. Easy Red L 152 Young 5. Final Straw L 149 Murphy Mgn: 8. Time: 4:15:4/5. O: Move Up Stable. T: Kathy Mckenna. B. g. 4, Quiet American-Agolo, Alydeed. Bred by Kingfield Farm (Canada). 5th. Training Flat. 1-1/2 Miles. 1. Dalucci (Ire) 150 Dalton 2. Italian Wedding L 150 Dowling 3. Your Sum Man (Ire) L 150 Crowley 4. Planets Aligned L 150 Aizpuru 5. The Price Of Love L 150 Hodsdon 6. Slip Away L 150 Young 7. Dynantonia L 150 Rafter Mgn: 7 1/2. Time: 2:54:3/5. O: Cherry Knoll Farm. T: Janet Elliot. Gr. g. Daylami-Coigach, Niniski. Bred by Michael Pitt (Ire).

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toga in August. “I feel grateful,” she said. “He’s just so smart.” • Parker’s Project, according to Jonathan Sheppard’s assistant/first call jockey Danielle Hodsdon, is “completely goofy”. The 4-year-old Sheppard homebred, called “Parker” around the barn, didn’t goof around at Open House, running wire-to-wire in the second division of the maiden, cruising to a 1 1/2-length win over Straight To It (Aizpuru) and Salinja (Petty). “He’s very, very immature,” Hodsdon said. “He’s naughty at the start. At Middleburg, I had to have two ponies to get him to the paddock. He tries to lie down – he just gets really excited.” Owned by Hudson River Farm, the bay gelding demonstrated that he’s perfectly capable of focusing during a race

and Hodsdon took advantage of this ability, keeping him carefully in check on the front end and asking him for a driving finish at the wire. “Once he’s in a race, he’s great. Once you can get him to the start and away from the drop of the flag, then he’s fine,” Hodsdon said. “He was in front at Open House because there was no pace and I just wanted to get him going because he’s kind of a galloper. You can put him anywhere, he can be in front, he can be last.” Parker’s Project began his career on the flat as a 3-year-old, but after four races and no wins it became clear that the son of Parker’s Storm Cat might be better suited over fences. He finished fourth in his previous start, a maiden race at Penn National in which he raced toward the back of the pack for the majority of the race and had trouble getting through late.

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Bop’s Back

Boucher horse returns to jumps, runs away with Ferguson Stakes by Joe clancy

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Back in March, Lilith Boucher rattled off the plan for stakes-winning steeplechaser Class Bopper. “Run a few times on the flat, maybe take a shot and run him long on the grass at Keeneland . . . no really. Then freshen him up and try to win the Zeke Ferguson at Colonial Downs.” Fast forward to July and Boucher looks like a prophet. She did indeed try Class Bopper on the flat – three starts including one at Keeneland – and went to the $50,000 Ferguson July 11 off a six-week layoff. In his first jump start since November, the 5-year-old blitzed seven rivals – galloping off by 10 lengths at the finish. The winner took an immediate lead, widened it and won easily in 4:05.58 for the 2 1/4 miles. Dr. Bloomer held second with Dark Equation third. Defending race winner and pre-race favorite Slip Away scratched. Trained by Boucher and ridden by her husband for owner Rodman Moorhead, Class Bopper rewarded his connections’ patience. “I said all spring we were going to do it and it happened,” said Lilith after-

Sunday, July 11 ward. “It doesn’t always work that way. More like never. Are you kidding?” Boucher made a plan, stuck to it, and might suddenly have one of the top few young steeplechasers in training. Class Bopper the flat horse opened 2010 with a fifth behind Winchester in a Keeneland allowance, moved to Pimlico where a mile was too short (and he finished fourth) in May and then tested Colonial’s turf with a fifth in optionalclaiming company. “He had a legitimate excuse each time, but you could be real confident in his form,” said Lilith. “I sent him back to Camden (S.C.) and gave him three weeks off. We pulled his shoes and did nothing with him.” The vacation obviously helped. Class Bopper the steeplechase horse went back to light work and pointed for Ferguson Day via a final workout at Springdale Training Center. Boucher wanted something to make her horse gain confidence and nearly chose a flat race on the same day. She opted for the steeplechase,

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Class Bopper flies a fence on the way to a stakes win at Colonial Downs.

however, and got a bonus when Slip Away scratched – though Class Bopper would have been difficult for anyone to handle. Richard Boucher simply enjoyed the ride at Colonial. “No one has really challenged him,” said the jockey. “Maybe they think they’ll go get him after a mile but he keeps going. He just loves it. His ears are pricked and he’s remarkable. I’m still smiling, still getting goosebumps.” Class Bopper raced for his breeder, longtime Boucher client Mede Cahaba Stable and Stud through most of last year. The chestnut won a maiden hurdle as a 3-year-old in 2008 and won

twice on the flat and once over jumps in 2009. Moorhead, another longtime Boucher client, bought the son of Bop when Mede Cahaba scaled back its racing operation late in 2009. The victory ended a flirtation with the race for the Bouchers. They finished second in 2006 and 2007 with Class Vantage and in 2008 and Class Shadow. “It was nice to do well with Mignon because she was so supportive of us, and it’s nice to win for Rod too,” said Lilith Boucher. “He and his wife are so great and have been very good to us. I was See Ferguson page 23

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trying too hard this spring and he helped me realize it and helped me make the right decisions.” • In the opener, owner/trainer Jonathan Sheppard unveilved a 4-year-old Thunder Gulch gelding in Barnstorming, who made light work of eight others in a $15,000 maiden claiming hurdle. Ridden by Danielle Hodsdon, the winner came from far back early to score by 8 1/2 widening lengths over Power Game and Jack Twist. The winner needed 4:13.73 to cover the 2 1/4 miles and improved to 1-for-4 lifetime. The Kentucky-bred finished ninth and third on the flat for trainer Frankie Brothers at Gulfstream Park in 2009, then was sold to Sheppard. He missed more than 16 months with some foot troubles, but hinted at something positive with a fourth in a Colonial maiden claimer on the flat June 21. “He’s matured into a nice horse now that he’s 4 and he had the basics of schooling when he was 3,” said Hodsdon, “so he didn’t run like quite as green of a horse as a first-timer normally would. We like him a little bit. I think he’ll be nice around the hunt meets in the fall. He’s very, very professional and seems to like the jumping game.” Additional reporting by Katie Bo Williams.

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