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  • They gave over their Gaje ways and returned to the old wooden vurdon, pulled by horses, practicing their old trades of horsebreeding and metal work, staying strictly away from the cities.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Owing to this proximity, bears and wolves, especially the latter, of Muscovite origin, are frequently to be found in the Rominten forests, adjoining which is the celebrated imperial Trakenen stud and horsebreeding establishment, founded as far back as 1732 by Frederick the Great.

    The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900

  • "I think you had better stick to the horsebreeding," she said.

    Benita, an African romance Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Penny Chenery Tweedy grew up around her father's horsebreeding business in Virginia, went off to Smith College, had four children and settled into a housewife's life.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Penny Chenery Tweedy grew up around her father's horsebreeding business in Virginia, went off to Smith College, had four children and settled into a housewife's life.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Penny Chenery Tweedy grew up around her father's horsebreeding business in Virginia, went off to Smith College, had four children and settled into a housewife's life.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • I’ve never seen any truly credible analysis (not to me, anyway) about how horsebreeding, for example, is as scientific as it gets, yet the human records for track and field have fallen steadily, while Twenty Grand’s time could still win the Kentucky Derby virtually any year (although, in truth, nobody would beat Secretariat).

    Matthew Yglesias » The Amphetamines Era 2010

  • But I'm a Herald, not a landholder; I have no experience with horsebreeding, and Meke is likely to point that out as soon as I open my mouth. "

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • But I'm a Herald, not a landholder; I have no experience with horsebreeding, and Meke is likely to point that out as soon as I open my mouth. "

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

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