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The Harness Racing Blacksmith Who Just Might Become President of the United States
Lincoln Chafee left home in his twenties to begin a career in the standardbred racing game as a farrier in western Canada and now some 30 years later he is considering a run for the President of the United States. And if it’s true that America is indeed the land of opportunity, the former Governor of Rhode Island who proudly wore a tie with a design of harness horses in his official bio photo and who figuratively still has hoofprints on his heart could find himself leading the country.