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Thirty months after whipping his fallen carriage horse Ryder in New York, a 56-year-old horse carriage driver faces a criminal trial and possible jail time. The trial is scheduled for Monday.   It will be on Assistant District Attorney Sophie Robart to convince 12 New York jurors that the defendant overdrove his dark brown Standardbred and failed to […]

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