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Sing Me Back Home, a Graded Stakes Placed gelding spends a last moment with devoted owner Christina Sawelsky. Photo by Elisabeth Sawelsky

In tribute to her warhorse, 2 others find a home

As the sun set on their modest old barn, racing warhorse Sing Me Back Home turned his face toward the woman who loved him. And though cancerous tumors had pushed his once finely sculpted head into a battlefield of  lumps, Christina Sawelsky reached up and pulled him close. Holding his muzzle with her right hand, she leaned in and kissed his eye, thanking him for being such a good friend to her these past five years, and wishing him Godspeed. Sing Me Back Home Sire: Homebuilder Dam: Pocket Tunes, by Tunerup Foal date: Feb. 24, 1998 Earnings: $619, 541 in […]