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Tri comes to the fence every morning and night to "sing" to the woman who agreed to give him a pasture and love in exchange for nothing.

Gimp feedlot TB who raced 78 times now ‘sings’

He gave and they took. And for too many years, that was the life for Tri Tower’s, an unremarkable little horse with a body weakened from racing, but a heart strong enough to love his people. By the time he retired in 2003, the unremarkable looking racehorse had ankles the size of large naval oranges, and a body and spirit so worn and tired he was incapable of fending off the herd for a simple bite of the hay bale. “Tri was always at the bottom of the pecking order,” says Beth Kokoruda, a Maryland-based equestrian who runs a retirement […]