Silently praying, she led her horse to a new life
Clipping the lead rope onto her horse’s halter, Alyssa Stevens began to pray. Please let him walk off the property and onto the trailer waiting across the street. Her heart hammered, she felt a little like she was stealing her own horse, as she lead him away from the California rescue facility where she’d found, purchased and boarded ex-racehorse Stan the Man before her experience there had soured. “I bought him in 2008 for a $5,000 adoption fee and continued to board him in the same place, taking lessons on him, and even volunteering for them,” she says. But after […]