My grandma is actually a Known Entity at the harness racing museum because her genealogy research turned up a connection with one of the big shots of mid-19th-century racing. So she went there to look at some of their records and became kind of a regular. One time she sent me some photocopies of RARE PRIMARY DOCUMENTS where a guy took out an editorial in the paper to say, "critics say my favorite trotter is an ugly horse. Critics need to shut up, this horse is so strong and deserves our respect, and he's also very normal-looking"
(included was a painting of a very normal-looking horse, but ofc I don't know how he matched up to the breed standards of the day, or how many liberties the painting took)
But yeah I guess harness racing is only a known phenomenon to people who either have ties in upstate New York or got deep into Marguerite Henry's back catalog in their horse girl phase XD
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Date: 2022-06-26 01:21 pm (UTC)(included was a painting of a very normal-looking horse, but ofc I don't know how he matched up to the breed standards of the day, or how many liberties the painting took)
But yeah I guess harness racing is only a known phenomenon to people who either have ties in upstate New York or got deep into Marguerite Henry's back catalog in their horse girl phase XD