Equus

An ear for trouble

ot long ago, I had a lesson in “horse sense,” courtesy of my Quarter Horse gelding, Bull. I had been wanting to try my younger gelding on a trail ride, so one day I invited a friend to join us aboard Bull, an experienced trail horse. We headed up a path that Bull and I had taken many times. But at the top

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