The journey continues on the other side by horse drawn cart.

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The ground might be lower or higher on the take-off or landing side and all these things throw the horse's center of gravity.

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On the flip side, it's also important to see how the horse handles itself in workouts the week before the event.

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But while many ornately dressed pontiffs in centuries past arrived in a fancy horse-drawn carriage, Francis rolled into a side entrance of the basilica complex in an open-topped white jeep.

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It was one of those things where the horse was going, and she went behind the tote board on the back side, and I didn't see it, and when the horses showed back up, she wasn't there.

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