A Paso Robles spa where injured horses shine
How very fortunate are the injured horses who find their way to Angie Hager’s mecca of equine rehabilitation nestled in the Paso Robles region of California. Awaiting their sore muscles and tendons are coldwater salt spas, underwater treadmills, electrical-stimulation therapy, and many kind hands ready to gently take their reins and lead them from pain, back to health. Hager, a part-time Three Day Eventer and licensed physical therapist with copious experience helping people overcome their various injuries and conditions, had a masterstroke one day: “I knew of horses in the hunter/jumper and eventing sport horse world who would be turned […]
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Rood & Riddle Q&A on equine narcolepsy
Shortly after Carin Brown brought her mare Hermosa Valor home, she started noticing mysterious wounds appearing on the mare’s front legs. But as soon as they began to heal, the pretty mare would somehow cut them open again. Then, on a day filled with anticipation and hope for a possible ribbon at the dressage championship for Pony Club, Brown watched with shock as Hermosa Valor her completely collapsed to the stall floor, then seemed to become startled, and scampered back to her feet. Brown’s local veterinarian was called and a short time later, and the 18-year-old year old ex-racehorse was […]
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They ran for their lives, start over after tornado
“You have to get out now. Leave now!” the storm chasers yelled, making their voices heard above the din of the storm. As softball-sized hail pummeled the rooftop of her barn at Celestial Stables, on the Orr Family Farm, Lindsay White and her partner Randy Weidner ran for their lives as the EF 5 Oklahoma tornado bore down on the barn where they kept two prized off-track Thoroughbreds and his racing Quarter Horses. She hesitated for a moment: “I said I wanted to hitch up the trailer first,” White says. “But there was no time.” So, with only the clothes […]
