Blind rider and a T-bred, 26, are champs
He stood tall and shiny in an Oregon field, a Thoroughbred so handsome he looked far younger than his 26 years. Last summer, as the sun glinted off his well-muscled body, Rio turned his finely sculpted head to watch a young woman approach. He could see her thin form, her long hair. But she could not see him. He appeared as a blurry brown object in the fog to Wren Zimmerman, a 25-year-old who has been legally blind since her senior year in high school. Walking alongside Vicki Zacharias, a horse trainer who owned the spectacular gelding, a new chapter […]
