‘I’ll get you out’ she whispered, saving 9 horses
Everywhere she looked was sick horses. Noses running, they coughed as they stood shivering in the slop left behind by a Canadian winter rainstorm. The gray, who raced under the name E.Z. Irish, stood gingerly on a broken pelvis, and Somarvelous, who’d previously earned more than $200,000 on the track, was huddled among them; a total of nine forgotten Thoroughbreds, some still wearing their racing plates, deposited on an Ontario feed lot last December, awaiting their final ride to slaughter. Not knowing how she could rescue as many as that, Mindy Lovell whispered to the horses, “I’ll get you out […]
