A horse no one could save runs free
As good as dead last September, a horse whose leg fracture was so severe many veterinarians said it was hopeless, now stands soundly on four good legs; a testament to the “inner fight” the animal showed during the very worst of times. “I couldn’t give up on him,” says Brittany Wright of Savannah, Tenn. “So many vets told me they couldn’t fix that horse, but he had so much heart that even with his leg as bad as it was, he was dragging me around. I felt like it was his way of telling me to fight for him.” After […]
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Left on Fla. roadside, he was blinded, burned
On a desolate stretch of road slicing first through sugarcane fields and then everglades in the Homestead region of South Florida, it must have felt like burning hell last July to an ex-racehorse waiting for the next thing to go wrong in his young life. Emaciated and scared, Prodigioso shifted his weight gingerly on four painful feet that oozed with thrush. His back pasterns were flayed open with deep burns, probably ripped by rope, and a painful looking burn was raw and ugly on his lower lip. His right eye, freshly blinded, somehow, showed him shadows that must have scared […]
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After 3 surgeries, a t’bred now dances like a star
An unraced Texas Thoroughbred who survived three surgeries on three different legs has blossomed into a virtuoso in the dressage ring. Though he once hated dressage work so much he’d occasionally stamp his feet like a child, Dusty Dazing has suddenly morphed into a 3rd Level dressage competitor with everything going his way. “This horse was basically rehabbing from injuries and surgery from the fall of 2013 to the summer of 2015, when I brought him back to work with the help of Jennie Brannigan, assistant trainer to Phillip Dutton,” says owner and rider Cherie Chauvin of Maryland. “We were […]
