His show name was My Thriller, and I have rescued him twice—once when he was a 2-year-old pony in a killer pen at the stockyards and again about 12 years later when his show career was cut short because of Cushing’s disease and founder.

Situations change, and sometimes people are no longer able to care for the ponies they once loved and showed. However, someone has to step up and continue to care for that pony, or it will ultimately end up in a bad situation, such as where I initially found My Thriller.