With Apologies To Rod Serling

The natural habitat of Thoroughbred racing isn’t the Twilight ZoneÑbut sometimes it certainly seems that way. Case on point: Within the span of a few

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Defining Liability

A trip to the restroom shouldn’t turn into a contact sport, but sometimes bad things happen. In March 2010, Thomas Duban and his wife, Martha,

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Keeping Them Going

Not unlike humans, as horses age their physical abilities slowly begin to diminish. Joints might not move quite as easily; little aches and pains might

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Riding vs. Chores

I’ve come to believe that height of weeds on a horse property is directly proportional to the amount of time the property owner has recently

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The Lemming Defense

My mother always warned me about the dangers of following the crowd: “If all your friends jumped off a cliff,” she’d ask, “would you follow

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