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This story is about a thoroughbred racehorse named Doketo, who was owned and trained by the person telling the story. Doketo was a good racehorse, though not exceptional as he might have you believe. However, as the racetrack saying goes, he was better than an empty stall. Life is like that. Friends and associates may not be exactly what you want, but in a very real sense, they can still be better than an empty stall. Doketo s eventual owner learned this lesson as a 20-year-old boxer competing in the fiercely contested featherweight division of the 1954 Golden Gloves, where winners qualified for the Pan American Games. The late veteran boxing judge Billy Oaths believed the young fighter had a strong chance of winning his division. His confidence came from the boxer s previous bout, a stunning televised victory over a top-ranked U.S. featherweight in the opponent s hometown just three months earlier. As the young boxer climbed the steps to the ring for his first Golden Gloves match before a large crowd, Billy called out, C mon, let s get the ball rolling! The boxer, full of confidence, shouted back, Don t worry, Billy. This won t last long. And it didn t. The referee stopped the fight in the first round, awarding a TKO win to the boxer s opponent. While disappointed, Billy would likely have summed it up with the same racetrack wisdom: his boxer and Doketo were both better than an empty stall.

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Doketo: The 1960s Story of a Thoroughbred Racehorse is a hard-to-put-down story that marks R.H. Pope s debut in adult non-fiction writing. A long established and award-winning Business Intermediary and Commercial Realtor, he is now retired after 62 years selling businesses in the United States and Canada. He has been an amateur boxer, defeating a U.S. nationals champion in his home state on television, a marathon runner finishing four marathons at age 52 and 53 with a PR of 3:26:25 earning an invite to the New York City Marathon prior to injury, a multi-state licensed racehorse trainer, an internationally qualified Olympics boxing referee certified by (AIBA), and a long-distance diesel trucker hauling frozen whale Halibut fish weekly to Los Angeles, California from BC Packers fish cannery in Steveston, British Columbia.

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