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SCHOLASTIC BOOK SUMMARY:
This is the story of the great horse Exterminator, affectionately known as Old Bones. An unknown in 1918, he won the Kentucky Derby. He went on to become the top winner of cup races and, many claim, the greatest thoroughbred ever developed in this country. Retired in 1924 at the age of nine, when he pulled up lame in his 100th race. He died in 1945, at the ripe old age of thirty. Exterminator is buried in Binghamton, New York, beside his constant companion, the pony Peanuts II, and near his old stablemate, Sun Briar.


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katlupe said:
SCHOLASTIC BOOK SUMMARY:
This is the story of the great horse Exterminator, affectionately known as Old Bones. An unknown in 1918, he won the Kentucky Derby. He went on to become the top winner of cup races and, many claim, the greatest thoroughbred ever developed in this country. Retired in 1924 at the age of nine, when he pulled up lame in his 100th race. He died in 1945, at the ripe old age of thirty. Exterminator is buried in Binghamton, New York, beside his constant companion, the pony Peanuts II, and near his old stablemate, Sun Briar.


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