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Biters, refusers and the wayward
Some of the commentaries in the early editions of Timeform's'Racehorses' annuals seem a little harsh now: 'A well-bred "thief" who will never win again' (Poseidonius, 1949); 'he is a headstrong, impetuous, hard-pulling brute, as like as not to refuse to start, or run wide on the bends, or do anything else he can think of to avoid racing' (Le…