Horse & Rider

Second Chance Horseman

Tyler Murray stood bewildered in the pasture, muck bucket and manure fork in hand. Looking around him incredulously, he turned to the man next to him.

“So you’re telling me I have to drag this heavy thing around and pick up poop?”

The corrections officer just laughed. “Welcome to horses.”

Murray discovered his passion for horses in a rather unorthodox way—in prison. Incarcerated at the Central Maryland Correction Facility after a string of non-violent crimes, Murray was depressed and angry at the world, consumed with guilt and shame. “I was in a dark place emotionally and

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