Here’s a phenomenon that will be familiar to anyone fortunate enough to have a farm of their own. Whenever a horse (or other animal) is in need of a foster home, or rescue, or permanent adoption, people assume you’ve always got room for one more.
“You have space in your pasture or something, right?” your distant Facebook friends say.
This is true even if you’re a big time celeb, like Jon Stewart. Stewart and his wife, Tracey, run a farm that houses rescued farm animals. One of their most recent additions is Lily the Pony, an elderly mare who was abandoned in poor condition at the New Holland auction. Lily came with a friend, a Paint mare named Anita. Now maybe the Stewarts will have a trio of matching white equines on their farm thanks to late night TV host and former Daily Show correspondent, Samantha Bee.
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Leslie Potter is a graduate of William Woods University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Equestrian Science with a concentration in saddle seat riding and a minor in Journalism/Mass Communications. She is currently a writer and photographer in Lexington, Ky. Potter worked as a barn manager and riding instructor and was a freelance reporter and photographer for the Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar and Saddle Horse Report before moving to Lexington to join Horse Illustrated as Web Editor from 2008 to 2019. Her current equestrian pursuits include being a grown-up lesson kid at an eventing barn and trail riding with her senior Morgan gelding, Snoopy.
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