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This is more than a challenge. They want me to fail. That\u2019s why they demanded: take Francisco Goitia\u2019s dirty gold horse to your complex and make him a Triple Crown winner. Preposterous. The horse is several times three-years old and shows more ribs than a skeleton. When I introduce myself as the world\u2019s greatest scientist, he\u2019s too tired to respond.<\/p>\n

\tLet\u2019s start by christening you Hercules, I say, and motion for my assistants to wheel in nuclear wheat and atomic hay. While the starving equine eats, and drinks hormone-enhanced water, I inject him with pulverized testicles of cheetahs and lions and other fearsome felines. <\/p>\n

\tIn a week he\u2019s ready to run but I swear I can beat him for a hundred years, and I\u2019m no Jesse Owens. We increase his nutrients and keep running, a furlong, then two, half way around the track, three quarters, and by week eight all the way around, and he\u2019s almost doubled his body weight.<\/p>\n

\tAstonishing, Hercules, you\u2019re seventy percent as fast as most stud horses, I tell him. Now we must put a jockey on your back.<\/p>\n

\tI summon a fine rider, twice a third-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, and explain our challenge. Soon after he mounts, a lasso envelopes his neck and jerks him onto the stinking soil of the track.<\/p>\n

\tNo one rides his bones anymore, says Francisco Goitia.<\/p>\n

\tWhat did you do for this poor creature besides paint him?<\/p>\n

\tThat\u2019s my job. <\/p>\n

\tMine\u2019s to make him a sleek running machine. Leave at once. <\/p>\n

\tAs I dig for my cell phone, Goitia twirls another lasso.<\/p>\n

Famished Horse (Caballo Fam\u00e9lico)
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