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Romance was purchased for $ 22,000 by Adam Lazarus and trainer Bill Kaplan at the 2009 Ocala Breeders' Sales Company sale of juveniles. Lazarus then sold shares in his fifty percent to a group of investors. During her second day of training, Musical Romance suffered a fracture of the
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