ers for the group, from across the
skepticism of humans have made have ended up in someone’s dog
country. Some 50 people celebrat-
her journey a long and sometimes food, his story gone for ever.
ed Bluff’s birthday with him the
discouraging one, but I think she’s
year after his adoption, in person
beginning to understand us, and As Terry Shewcraft said to me, “I
and online. He’s gone from a for-
we are beginning to understand love horse racing...I’ve been going
gotten, thrown away racehorse, to
her. Allison and I are cautiously to the Derby since 1976. It’s good
one of the best-loved rescues in the
pointing out her fluid movement to give back”. And indeed, no mat-
country.
and propensity for jumping any ter your background with horses,
obstacle she can find and saying it’s important for us, every single
“He is the heart and soul of One
quietly ‘Maybe we’ve got a dres- one of us, to give something back.
Horse At A Time, Inc. He has pro-
sage horse; maybe she’ll make an You never know what one decision
vided us with a clearer vision of
eventer’. And this, from a horse might lead to.
what we need to do as a group,”
someone once abandoned.
said Austin. OHAAT has since

sponsored three more horses.
No matter where or how you en-
counter a rescued horse, no mat-
It’s amazing how far “well, let’s
ter how small you think your help
give it a try” will take a horse.
below: Tommy with Terry
to them might be, give it. If not
When Jitterbug first arrived in
for the trailer that took Jitterbug
Kentucky, she was so mistrust-
away from her breeding farm, I
ful she would barely let us touch
wouldn’t be riding her. Without the
her. Now, four months later, she
patience of Susanna Thomas and
stands for the farrier and the vet,
Terry Shewcraft, Tommy might
can be groomed from head to toe,
not be alive right now. Without the
lunges, and will go walk/trot under
determination and respect of Steve
saddle. Her intelligence, coupled
Murtough, Penny Austin, and each
with a stubborn nature and basic
member of OHAAT, Bluff might
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