The pair agreed to pinpoint the injury by numbing nerves. But it has to wait. Derby day is too hectic. At Jeffrey Jacob's stable, one horse cringes and paws as the vet slides his hands over his back. He tranquilized the animal, then pulled out long needles and gently put them into the sore muscle.
Conversations are easy, and take up where they broke off the day before.
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