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Milt Toby is an attorney, author, photographer, golf rules official, and weight lifter with a lifelong interest and involvement in the horse industry. He grew up showing American Saddlebreds, then switched to hunters, dressage, and combined training. Milt worked at some of the country’s largest horse shows as a steward for the American Horse Shows Association (before the organization morphed into the United States Equestrian Federation), and he has attended equine events on six continents. The author of five books, including The Complete Equine Legal and Business Handbook and Ruffian, Milt is the current Chair of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Equine Law Section.

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A Horse Is A Horse, Of Course, Of Course

A recent letter to the Lexington Herald-Leader offered a novel way to reduce the number of breakdowns at the race track. The writer, a self-styled "horse communicator," suggested that he can detect a horse’s injuries up to two weeks before the nature and site of the injury become apparent to a veterinarian. Utilization of this skill, the writer said, would allow sore or injured horses to...