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said. "It's a shrine, they don't put any horses
in there or in his old paddock. Mr. Goodman
has functions there and he allows worthy
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Esarey did share a humorous tale about the
stallion barn renovation that he wasn't quite
aware was occurring at the time it happened.
There are four stalls in that structure, he said.
The brass letters that once spelled out Man
o' War's name had long ago been removed,
but you could see by the faded outline on the
wood which stall was his.
Once it was determined beyond a doubt
which stall was Man o' War's, that door was
taken down, refurbished, and put on display
elsewhere on the property.
Yet around the same time, two other fall-
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their place.
"I've heard that the demolition contractor
who took 'em down sold all those doors as
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restoring Mt. Brilliant and its adjacent par-
cels. He considers his job at the expanded
farm as a perpetual work-in-progress.
