[T]he many still would cling / To toil and tears—to life and suffering; / And some, whose anguish might not brook to wait / That shunless doom, plunged headlong to their fate: […]

the military-aristocratic Ch'oe family, which passed its shogunal type authority down hereditarily through four generations.

However, it now seems that the investigators do not believe that the deliberate laming of horses is involved in the case. Injuring or mis-shoeing a horse so subtly that it walks sound in the paddock but is lame in a race is very hard to achieve.

[…] part of the cross-guard. Often these chappes - a word, incidentally, that means “capes” - were decorated in needlework with the arms or device of the owner.