I'm familiar with the Eastern horsey set; all though high school I shoveled poop in a stable with anywhere from 50 to 90 horses boarded. Thoroughbreds mostly, owned by folks whose avocation ran to dressage and jumping events. The sort of event where someone has to get in at 5am to groom and braid manes.
This is a considerably moneyed group with husbands and fathers associated with elite professional organizations.
Hard for me to imagine this ruling won't go unchallenged.
Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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