“If nothing else, I at least feel like, in the end, I’ve done right by him. I don’t know if he’ll ever be what I imagined when I bought him, but I know that what he has taught me already is invaluable, and I am excited to see where the future takes us.”
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“As we waited for the blood tests to come back, I couldn’t help but wonder what I wanted the results to say. If he was a cryptorchid or proud cut it could mean an expensive surgery and a long recovery process. But if he wasn’t, was this just the way he was?”
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“I had been riding horses for 19 years, and I’d been a working student under multiple trainers. I had at least thought myself fairly competent. With a day of owning my new horse, however, I had been reduced to feeling terrified and completely useless.”
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“Sometimes, despite the red flags, we decide to take a chance.” Victoria Shields shares the story she never saw coming of a too-good-to-be-true Haflinger named Nemo: in Part I, with the benefit of hindsight, she looks at all the red flags she chose to ignore.
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