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a kennedy

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6. Did anyone hear that when they did a autopsy on him, his heart was huge......

Thu May 19, 2022, 09:07 PM

May 2022

larger then a normal horse, his was huge, if I remember hearing that. Yup......here it is....

“We were all shocked,” Swerczek said. “I've seen and done thousands of autopsies on horses, and nothing I'd ever seen compared to it. The heart of the average horse weighs about nine pounds. This was almost twice the average size, and a third larger than any equine heart I'd ever seen. And it wasn't pathologically enlarged. All the chambers and the valves were normal. It was just larger. I think it told us why he was able to do what he did.”

I knew I heard that........

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