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Year One—figuring it all out

Seasoned campaigner offers respite from grief

Four years had passed since Amy Smith’s mother died suddenly and unexpectedly at age 56. As she faced the prospect of spending Christmas alone in her Washington, D.C. apartment, the thought occurred to her that were her mother alive, she would tell her to use her inheritance to embrace life and make herself happy. “This was when I decided I was ready to buy a horse,” Smith says. “So, the morning after Christmas, I got up at 6 a.m., had a cup of coffee and went to look” at seasoned campaigner Silent Thunder who was stabled at Penn National. Before […]