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  • Displaced horse-owning New Yorkers bought up the small farms of the Bluegrass and built Greek Revival mansions typical of an early 19th-century plantation South that Kentucky, in fact, had never known.

    Behind the Bluegrass Max Watman 2010

  • Jason's third novel, FAKE I.D., concerns a bouncer's desperate attempts to join a horse-owning syndicate.

    Archive 2009-08-16 SeattleTammy 2009

  • Jason's third novel, FAKE I.D., concerns a bouncer's desperate attempts to join a horse-owning syndicate.

    Department of Book Reports: Jason Starr SeattleTammy 2009

  • Wealthy, horse-owning couples live in "mink and manure" districts; teachers who go on strike take part in a "chalkdown."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The race horse-owning mogul also co-founded the Bridgehampton Polo Club and the Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge, which takes place on Saturdays in July and August.

    Return to Montauk: Brant, Schnabel, Beard Frolic in Andy Land 1987

  • The race horse-owning mogul also co-founded the Bridgehampton Polo Club and the Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge, which takes place on Saturdays in July and August.

    Return to Montauk: Brant, Schnabel, Beard Frolic in Andy Land 1987

  • First to get in, because others had made way for them, were the men of the Companions, the horse-owning lords of Macedon, and any officers who had been near the doors.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • The point of this discovery was that it proved Haldin to have been familiar with that horse-owning peasant -- a reckless, independent, free-living fellow not much liked by the other inhabitants of the house.

    Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Other big names from the race horse-owning world on the share register include Dermot Desmond and Trevor Hemmings.

    Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • "When you look at the potential horse-owning population of the U.S., it is at best static if not shrinking," McGuire said.

    unknown title 2009

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