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A Century at the Rail: Doc Copelan Turns 100

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Robert Copelan, known across the sport simply as Doc, reaches his hundredth birthday this week, a milestone shaped by a lifetime spent in service to the horse. He very nearly took a different path at Ohio State University, but it is the animals of the American turf that claimed him instead, and have kept him close ever since.

With reporting from Thoroughbred Daily News.

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