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Still Going Strong At 39, Is “Athens” The Country's Oldest Living Thoroughbred?

[caption id="attachment_519798" align="alignleft" width="1024"] Duplicitous breaks his maiden at Delaware Park in 1990 | Hoofprints, Inc. [/caption] As is the case with most of these horses who live on in relative anonymity after their careers on the racetrack end, Duplicitous really didn't accomplish much of anything on the racetrack. He ran just 11 times and won just once, in a $4,000 maiden claimer at Delaware Park way back in 1990. But ask his owner, Fonda Dixon, and the horse who was renamed Athens, is as special as any racehorse who...

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