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Bubbles floats over cross-country

Bubbles wasn’t supposed to stick. The plan was for the onetime Suffolk Downs racehorse, formerly known as Rub Softly Rube, to be retrained and resold quickly. But when the shrewd horsewoman who bought him began teaching the super cute horse the foundations of dressage and jumping, there was a development she hadn’t planned for. Bubbles turned out to be quite the charmer. And he plied the force of his nuzzling, snuggling personality upon Corinne Ashton’s daughter Rebecca. And pretty soon, the horse Ashton identified as a great sales prospect was one the girl coveted as a pet. “She begged me […]