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July 22, 2006
Mr Brad's Horses
The Bryan—College Station Eagle is doing a great job covering the the tragic deaths of 27 horses in less than 24 hours. The horses belonged to Brad Raphel, simply Mr Brad to our daughter and the other children who learned to ride from him. He provided therapeutic riding for developmentally delayed kids in addition to regular lessons. He still has eighteen of his Peruvians, but their vet bills are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the replacement costs are expected to be astronomical. Two remain at the Texas A&M Vet School, the same facilities that housed Houston's Shriner burn unit during Hurricane Rita. While a refugee-student in Houston my wife and kids lived with my parents in Bryan and I often studied on the weekends at the Health Sciences Library, which the medical and veterinary schools used.
Here's Google News for all the stories.
Our daughter is in love with horses. Of all the activities we've offered her—swimming, gymnastics, soccer, ballet—horseback riding lessons with Mr Brad were her favorite by a mile. We haven't told her that a pesticide Mr Brad used on his feed silo to kill weevils likely killed her favorite riding horses, Red and Navarro.
Posted by Niels Olson at July 22, 2006 9:55 AM
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