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Banker's Heiress had a body score of between 1 and 2 when she arrived at Wishmaker Stable in Dover, N.H.

‘What’s a horse like her doing here?’

On an August 2012 night when Banker’s Heiress arrived without fanfare at a sprawling animal rescue in New Hampshire, Lisa Healy and her husband John did a double take. And they thought, “What is she doing here?” It wasn’t that “here” was so bad. The Live and Let Live Farm in Chichester, N.H. was home to a mixed breed herd of 70 horses, and the Healy’s spent many fulfilling hours tossing hay to the motley crew. But the bright chestnut Thoroughbred mare stood out like a peacock, says Healy who notes, “The first time I saw her, I couldn’t believe […]