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If there’s one thing Leland Decker will teach you, it’s this. People who love to be around horses, they really love to be around horses. There’s no gray area. “My work is horses, my spare time is horses, my hobby is horses,” he says. His vacation is horses. “I don’t have a boat. I don’t have a camper. I don’t play golf. I don’t play tennis. I don’t go fishing. I don’t go hunting,” he says. He built the horse track on his 30-acre property. He welded the pipe fencing around it He trains young riders to exercise the horses. “All right they’re gonna go around again and then they’re going to pull up and then go to the gates,” he says as two horses turn the corner on the track. For decades, he galloped the horses himself, into his 50s. But at age 72, his well worn cowboy boots stand firmly on the ground. “About the time you get the experience and your brain’s working really good, the body’s wearing out,” he says laughing. “So that’s why I have these guys that are younger but I watch what’s
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