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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 2 of Marching Orders: The inmate

News flash! Equine ER author Leslie Guttman will be signing books at Keeneland Racecourse this Sunday 10/25 at the gift shop from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Last week in Part 1 of the excerpt from the chapter entitled Marching Orders from the new book Equine ER we met Marching Orders, a former racehorse, as he headed into surgery. In Part 2 today we meet the inmate whose life was transformed by the stoic Thoroughbred...

Part 1 of Marching Orders: Readying for surgery

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...