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Bob thinks that you can tell a lot about a guy by the way he treats his horse.
That's why, even when that new guy, Jack, made fast friends with his horses inside of a week, Bob wasn't quite ready to admit that the guy was okay.
Anyone can get along with someone else's horses; especially when he's being paid for it.
So, Bob went with his instinct and gave Jack a horse. A beautiful ruddy-brown creature that Jack immediately named Moe.
Nutcase.
But he's a good guy; Bob knows that now, because Moe is almost as happy with Jack as he was with Bob and Gwen and all the other horses to prance around with. Bob's willing to lay down money that Jack loves that horse like he loves his mother.
And when he shows up at Sirius Farm one morning to explain to Jack how training a race horse is going to work, and finds the long-haired youth brushing and cuddling and chatting happily to his horse, Bob has to laugh a bit.
Now he's sure that Jack's a great guy, but he's not so sure about himself anymore; after all, he's never been jealous of a horse before.
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