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...spends his days lounging, lunching and - how to put this delicately? - loving.
Morning, afternoon and night.
``He's taken to his new career with gusto,'' said Dan Rosenberg, president of Three Chimneys Farm.
...Up to three times a day during thoroughbred mating season, from mid-February through July (88 times so far; 111 by the end), a mare is ushered into a breeding shed to the south of Smarty's stall to be - as they say in the industry - covered.
His stud fee is $100,000 per live foal, not bad for a horse who retired with $7.6 million in earnings, the third-best total ever. That's why mares have dropped by from as far away as Germany and Japan. Each session in the shed - actually another handsome barn, complete with pine paneling, thickly padded walls and shredded-tire floors - is videotaped to guarantee paternity. If there was a bathrobe hanging from a hook, the place would look like Hugh Hefner did the decorating...
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