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What was the name of the horse that beat the locomotive in a race in 1830?
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∙ 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thumb_(locomotive)
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe name of the horse seems to have been lost in time. There does not appear to be any mention of the horses actual name in any of the old newspapers from that time or in historical archives.
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