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Hard work, a bit of elbow grease, and a whole lot of patience is what it seemed to take. With a lot of emphasis on the patience part, because recovery wasn’t a straight or fast road. It had ups and downs and twists and turns and plenty of points where it would have been easier to just give up. To put down the halter and move on to something else that wouldn’t be so difficult. Buch such is life, right? Which is discouraging for many, sure, but if you can push through it makes victory taste...

Whoever was in charge of writing all of the horse girl Hallmark movies that Valerie watched as a kid had clearly never interacted with a horse before. They were always tales of a girl and a horse that had been deemed as a ‘lost cause’ – with little hope of redemption or success – and their remarkable friendship. Like the main character was infallible and could do no wrong, an infallible pillar of moral character and horse whispering. See, that was all well and good for making an enter...

Rolling quietly down the highway, Damien’s fingers drummed steadily on the steering wheel. He was lost in thought, as he had been for the entire two hour drive, occasionally checking on Valerie in the rearview mirror. While he had participated in Sagebrush Sanctuary’s makeover event the previous year, Valerie had been selected this year to take on a Loshenka of her own. She poured over the selected horse’s file with an intensity that was almost foreign to her friend. He had been the fir...