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CADILLAC â From ponies to motorhomes, sales of all things horsepower are zipping along nearly one year into the pandemic. The reasons are obvious, if unexpected: outside is one of the safest places to be if you want to avoid the SARS-COV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Some have extra money from stimulus checks and faced fewer other expenses this year than they might have otherwise had. When COVID hit, we were worried that we wouldnât be able to sell horses like we were doing. But it had the opposite effect, said Jessica Hughston, who runs a consignment sales business in Falmouth, JM Hughston Ranch, with her husband Myles. Because of families staying at home, not being able to go out anywhere or go on vacations, they got back to their old roots of quality time at home and I think thatâs what sprung the interest in horses. ....