This is the kind of story in racing that needs to get more circulation. There are so many people in the business doing wonderful things, like therapeutic riding, yet so often the focus is much darker.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... source=rss
Actually, the media could really do something with this one as Z's star quality continues to rise.
jm
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I think most everybody on this board has some sense of how these animals can be in a strange way rehabilitative to us, inwardly.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a way to really test this - set up a pilot program - and see if other autistic children would also be responsive, and be able to find expression and healing through this special kind of touch.
jm
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a way to really test this - set up a pilot program - and see if other autistic children would also be responsive, and be able to find expression and healing through this special kind of touch.
jm
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JM: Are you familiar with Temple Grandin? There is hope for the treatment of autism and this woman is an example. Autistic, she is a professor at Colorado State University and specializes bovine agricultural. Someone should have put her on a horse. We might have gotten her interested in equine studies.
http://www.gazettenet.com/2010/03/04/sh ... n-pictures
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