Amateur versus Athlete: My first time on a horse

By Ting Cui

My introduction to the horse world began with teeth marks on my hand.

When I walked into the barn at Eddy Farm on a late November evening, it smelled faintly of manure, and the floor was strewn with scraps of hay and dust from the indoor ring. In one stall stood Scout, a blind and deaf elderly horse with a glass eye who resembled a real-life Bojack Horseman. I reached out to greet a horse named Dan, who promptly bit the back of my hand. This was the world I'd signed up to explore with the Middlebury Equestrian team.

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