While retaining her responsibilities as Director of Volunteers our new racing correspondent reports from Maine. This doubles the size of our New England Bureau since Tommy will continue to cover Pond Hockey.

“We have one horse – Fiona – whom Leigh has been raising since birth. She was a rescue of sorts (that is, her mom was a rescue who turned out to be pregnant, so Leigh placed the mare and kept the foal). We also just adopted two adorable donkeys from Save Your Ass Longear Rescue in New Hamster. One is a miniature donkey and the other is either a small standard or a large mini. Hard to say. Olive and Sadie (you can rename equines it turns out because they don’t know their names anyway). Burro is really just the name for domesticated donkeys who have gone feral. In the US, they live on BLM land and get rounded up for adoption. The donkey book I’m reading says the feral ones are easy to tame, though. We saw some as we drove through Arizona or New Mexico.

“And yes, it is a great fantasy come true, to finally have a horse! Once I get more settled in and used to taking care of everyone, we’ll start looking for a horse of my very own. Diane, who lives just up the street from us, lets me ride her big old draft horse, Sundance, when we all go out for a ride in the ‘hood. She has a very wound up Morgan horse – Brixham – whom she rides.