although to horse people their fragrance is the best perfume in the world! 
Also some non-horse people (I remember a man I worked with talking about the wonderful, healthy smell of horse manure, versus cow, goat and chicken manure. 
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I've been in the horse world long enough to know how rough it can be. Unfortunately, it attracts anti-social control-freaks, the overly competitive, and snobs. Not all horse people are like that, of course. The real horse people just love horses, love to ride and/or drive, love to be around them, and caretake them...and enjoy being around other horse people. But for the non-horse people, driven my ego and/or money, they are also a magnet.
The Romney's are a prime example. When they gambled on a horse with a hoof defect, Ann Romney and her trainer drugged the horse up to the top levels of competition. When he was too unsound and in too much pain to compete any more, they drugged him up with surgery-level analgesics and passed him off as competition sound at high price to an unsuspecting buyer. Fortunately she had blood saved from his pre-purchase exam, which proved the scam. She dropped the Romney's from her lawsuit and settled out of court with their trainer.
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