Police horse overcomes trauma, snags glory and a starving, abandoned U.S. race horse
is now thriving in Ontario.
Two stories that will make your day.
It was a grey, rainy day as the police horse trotted up Dufferin St. with Const. Gregg John, a mounted unit officer, in his saddle.
All of a sudden, one of Trooper’s hooves clipped the curb, tossing the horse and rider onto the wet pavement. An oncoming tractor-trailer was headed their direction, its 16 wheels hurtling ever closer.
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It was a close call, but after that day Trooper just wasn’t the same. Big trucks spooked him. He was no longer the horse any officer could ride around town.
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But there was something about Trooper, John recalled. He just had to face his fear.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/16/police_horse_overcomes_trauma_snags_glory.html
To look at him now — a sleek chestnut Thoroughbred who flies over jumps, knees tucked, ears pointed forward in concentration — you’d never know that the same horse was found starved and partially blinded in the Florida Everglades.
“He was a starving rack of bones,’’ said South Florida SPCA spokeswoman Jeanette Jordan, adding that abandoned horses are common in a state with no legal slaughterhouses.
The frightened horse had rope burns on his back ankles, which were tied to a bucket of cement. He’d been dragging the bucket along “in search of food and water,’’ said Jordan.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/16/starving_abandoned_us_race_horse_thriving_in_ontario.html
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OT: I haven't seen very many POC as mounted police. 
