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Leslie Guttman is an independent journalist and freelance writer whose work has appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, Salon, Orion, and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she worked on staff for over a decade. Her awards include being honored by the Society of Professional Journalists for outstanding journalism. She's also worked as an editor at Wired magazine, and her public radio commentary has been broadcast nationally on Marketplace.

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Part 1 of Marching Orders: Readying for surgery

15 Oct 2009, 9:33 AM

Today begins Part 1 of the story of how a former racehorse transformed the life of an inmate in this excerpt from the new book Equine ER by Leslie Guttman (Eclipse Press, 2009). On Sunday, April 6, 2008, a large dark bay gelding was on his back, anesthetized for colic surgery. Ten years earlier to the day, Marching Orders had slipped into this world, son of Captain Bodgit and Miss Stamper. Almost exactly...

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