Therapy horse helps patients perceive selves
A bay mare who bucks when she’s ridden and has an addiction to windsucking—an act thought to get horses high— has brought hope and healing to therapy patients who seek her guidance in their journey toward wellness. Code Forty, an off-track Thoroughbred fostered seven years ago from the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) has hit her stride, not as a sport horse or companion animal, but as a bona-fide therapist’s “assistant” at Unity Wholeness Center in Denver, Colo. “Horses are relationship masters,” says Suzanne Carter, a licensed professional counselor, and proprietor of the Colorado center. “Because they’re prey animals, they’re motivated […]
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Tiznow son reunited with seller; a big surprise
An eight-month mission to obtain and return a majestic Thoroughbred gelding to a woman who sold the animal six years ago, but carried a torch for him ever since, ended yesterday with tears of happy surprise as the statuesque horse came walking back into the life of Britt Wadsworth. Thoroughbred gelding Flexnow, a son of Hall of Fame racehorse and dual Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Tiznow, was delivered to Wadsworth at the Saratoga, N.Y. offices of equine hospital Rood & Riddle, where she now works, after a yeoman’s effort by Wadsworth’s boyfriend Sean Mahoney, and their friend, pinhooking business partner […]
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Former owner tracks down, saves his old horse
Eight years had passed since Jay Romig stepped into the same racebarn as his white Thoroughbred who had once run his heart out for him at Penn National. But time disappeared when Victorious Recall, now a 17-year-old careworn gelding, and Romig, 65, saw each other again a few months back, meeting as old friends after years apart. “I never thought I’d see him again,” Romig says. “I thought he must be dead.” But as soon as Romig entered the temporary barn, where Victorious Recall had been taken in by some kindhearted women, renewed vigor seemed to pump up the tired […]
