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Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
All the happy endings aren’t in fairy tales. Every now and then, there’s a real life story with an “and they lived happily ever after” conclusion.
Patty Alexander and her Arab mare D’Arcy have one of those stories. It began as a tragedy. It began with a broken leg, almost inevitably a death sentence for a horse. It ended happily two weeks ago when D’Arey’s xrays showed that the fracture had healed—just eight days after she gave birth to a beautiful little bay filly.
The story has a host of heroes: Middleburg veterinarian Ron Bowman, Clarke County horseman and veterinarian Dr. Matthew McKay-Smith, surgeon Midge Leitch and D’Arcy herself. Without her intelligence and trusting nature, her good, sound horse sense, the mare’s story would have ended, like the thoroughbred filly Ruffian’s, with death.
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