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Bonjour Papa helped turn life around for Nancy George

Bright copper racehorse turns bad luck around

Bad luck crashed into Nancy George’s life like a tsunami and washed away her cherished 80-acre Kentucky farm in 2006; it was the first thing to go in a succession of achingly tragic losses that seemed to keep coming and coming until most of the fight was stamped out of her. In 2007, a year after she and her husband Harry walked away from the property they’d painstakingly built up with gorgeous indoor and outdoor rings, her father succumbed to a stroke. The next year her best friend died in a fluke accident, and after that her broodmare bled out […]