I could myself very lucky that Dorado has always been very agreeable to dewormingÑthe most objection he ever gives is simple flipped lip and a post-deworming stare-down, as if to say, “Look what you made me doÉlook at my lip!” But last night, as I wiped globs of dewormer off my jacket and pants before picking some more up off the barn aisle floor and stuffing it back in his mouth, I remembered that our aging horsesÑeven the seemingly cooperative ones like my dear ThoroughbredÑhave had a lifetime to learn how to avoid deworming.

Dorado is cooperative when it comes to deworming…usually

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