Smoke’s Image

Smoke\'s Image
Smoke’s Image 1977-2005
Two weeks ago, I realized that a decision that we knew we would have to make about Smoke sooner or later was going to be sooner. Saturday, I watched him lurch down the hill to the barn and saw that his right knee, which had been bad for a long time, had given up functioning all together. Bute gave him a little relief through the weekend, and today his vet came out and put him down. Jack and a friend came to be with me while it happened.

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Hap

Hap
When I first saw Hap, I thought the way his white blaze slides off his nose was rather silly, but I have become fond of it over the years. And it certainly makes it easy to pick him out from other tall mahogany bay Thoroughbreds.