Laminitis. As a horse owner, a rider, or enthusiast, the word just makes you shudder, doesn’t it?

I’m convinced that few topics of horse health importance evoke as visceral response as this one. The outcomes for many of our favorite horses who have developed painful coffin bone rotation or sinking–whether these animals were famous as athletes or infamous in our own personal barnsÐhaven’t always been too sunny.

Beauty

We all know a horse who’s battled laminitis; the first two horses I rode as a child eventually succumbed to laminitis. This mare, a Tennessee Walker named Sensation’s Beauty, was one of them (here, piloted by my mom with me in tow)

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