This story exemplifies getting back in the saddle. People think it only happens in a Hollywood movie, but that’s not true. Here are the photos of the actual people (and horse) who refused to give up. It shows that set-backs do not have to determine the outcome of your life.
I decided rather suddenly this evening that I needed to own the movie “Seabiscuit” on DVD, although I’m not sure why a nearly 10-year-old movie about a nearly 80-year-old horse has been so much on my mind lately. I don’t even like horses!
But as I watched it, I remembered why I love that movie. First, there’s the affable and generous Charles Howard, who bought, rehabilitated and tirelessly promoted this undersized thoroughbred with a champion racing bloodline but very little to show for it before he came into Howard’s care.
Howard and his old-school trainer, Tom Smith, saw the ragged little horse’s potential in his fiery eyes, and they agreed that “you don’t throw a whole life away just because it’s banged up a bit.”
This story is all about second chances–for Howard, coping with the tragic death of his 15-year-old son and his wife’s subsequent desertion; for Smith, who…
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Back in the Saddle 