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  • We handed off the read paper to the first gringos we saw and ambled through the Jardin, packed despite the torn-up tiles, and I took yet another photo of Nacho, the drafthorse that pulls the red ice cream wagon into the Jardin most days.

    A perfect San Miguel afternoon 2005

  • The same thing has happened in feature news stories about my drafthorse-raising father, who uses his middle name primarily as his first name.

    Sneer quotes again - BatesLine 2005

  • Lumberjacking, the old-fashioned way: Jozef Buda and his drafthorse, Bubo, pull a felled tree out of a grove on a freezing morning near the Slovakian village of Liptovsky.

    SFGate: Top News Stories SF Gate Staff 2010

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