For centuries, horse sport has been called “the sport of kings.” No one who has felt their breath catch in their throat watching a racing-fit Thoroughbred gallop toward the wire or a Grand Prix jumper soar over a fence could...
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I felt ridiculous for crying. As I sat in the corner of my daughter’s room, slowly packing up her essentials, I fought to convince myself that we wouldn’t be gone forever. I refused to feel guilty for abandoning her scraped-up,...
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“It is clear that you don’t want to hear this, but you need to consider never getting back on a horse again.” The memory of this moment is clear as day. The room starts spinning, my face goes white, and...
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My obsession with horses started years ago when my parents would tote me around the racetrack in Barbados when I was only months old. When I moved to the United States, I was two and horses were no longer a...
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It was just a few weeks before Christmas and Andrea Loar, DVM was having a hard day. An emergency clinic veterinarian, she had seen a difficult case, the kind that lingers long after the tearful clients had left her exam...
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