A rider with MS set to run barrels on her T’bred
When Debi Paulin runs her first barrel race on her new t-bred she’ll be in the remarkable position of already having won her most important race. Diagnosed two years ago with Multiple Sclerosis after a sudden onset of paralysis, Paulin, 40, has fought much bigger battles outside the competition arena than she could ever encounter within. And she feels blessed to take her perfect-for-her ex-racehorse Sweet Duper to the Run for the Angels Benefit 5D Barrel Race in the town of Santo. “To be able to start running and competing again, especially on my own horse, means so much to me […]
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Mexico-bound Swass Like Me saved just in time
Five-year-old Texas bred Swass Like Me was pulled from a kill pen in Oklahoma Monday night and by coincidence was to ship back to the woman who had saved his life as a sickly newborn. Swass was foaled on the Keen Farm in Texas, and nursed to health by Donna Keen of Remember Me Rescue. Born with a physical condition that prevented him from receiving proper nutrition and hydration in utero, the colt could not stand and nurse when he was born. So Keen and her family slept in his stall and nursed him back to health, says Keen. Swass Like […]
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Unlocking the secrets of a Craigslist t’bred
It was such a low place for a classy and complicated horse to wind up. Steady Smiler, a graded stakes placed warhorse who raced past age 10, but was sound as a bell and statuesque at 17 hands, was just another horse listed on Craigslist when Amy Grayson happened to spot him among the backyard breds and cow ponies. “I figured out that by the time I bought him in April 2010, he had passed through seven race owners,” Grayson says. “I bought him from someone who hadn’t had him for very long, and who listed him on Craigslist when […]
