INTERVIEW EX-RACEHORSE SPECIAL
MAHLERVOUS WAS ONCE the best looking horse in this place. He had a well honed, athletic body and a handsome face on which the bridge of his nose was flawlessly contoured and as flat as a proverbial pancake. However, not long ago a fellow equine took a pot shot with a hind hoof and caught Mahlervous squarely on that bridge. Now he has a swelling below his eyes, and perfectly streamlined his face certainly isn't. The thing is, though, that nobody here seems to mind. The children and adults who meet him don't care. The staff who look after him don't give a second thought to this accidental reconstruction (and, of course, he has been checked over by vets and given a clean bill of health). And Mahlervous himself isn't remotely concerned either.
Imperfections mean nothing in this place — in fact, they are openly welcomed — for this is Greatwood, a charity that has been rehabilitating former racehorses with nowhere to go for 30 years, as well as bringing them