> I have since found out that the abutting property owners are going
> to put horses in the enclosed field...

May I refer you a thread from 1998 at
http://listserv.albany.edu/archives/bee-l.html
entitled 'Horses"?

Simply enter 'horses' into the search pane.  I originally looked for just
'horse', by got a lot of junk about kicking dead horses on BEE-L.

allen
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