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Old 06-01-2012, 09:24 PM
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I was looking at his Wikipedia entry the other day, and it claims that his heart (which is on display at a museum) weighs in at 6 lbs, versus 3ish for the average thoroughbred. It also said that horses were often given arsenic solutions, and testing on his mane showed repeated dosing over his lifetime.
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