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Liz Rymill

Racehorse Comanche Queen saves SA trackwork rider Danny Smith from life of drugs, homelessness

Heads turn at the thoroughbred racetrack at Millicent, about 50 kilometres west of Mount Gambier.  

Amid the sea of brown, black and occasionally grey gallopers, one mare looks more at home in a Hollywood western than racing down the home straight.

Brown and white patch-coloured Comanche Queen is a unique sight, and a favourite with spectators who stop in their tracks, open-mouthed, when she struts by.

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