Published: Saturday, April 21st, 2012
Sixteen-year-old
Jaycee Gallegos loves her horse Thorr. She’s grown up in the rodeo,
winning her first saddle when she was 5, and helps care for the four
horses her family owns.
Christina Calloway: Portales News-TribuneJaycee
Gallegos, 16, practices barrel racing with her horse Thorr, Friday at
an arena west of Portales. Although she loves her horses, she says the
possibility of a slaughterhouse opening in Roswell may be an option for
horse owners who can’t afford to keep their horses.
Her bond with Thorr was evident as she rode atop him Friday afternoon, hair tossed back in the wind, galloping, then making sharp turns around barrels in an arena west of Portales.
Her bond with Thorr was evident as she rode atop him Friday afternoon, hair tossed back in the wind, galloping, then making sharp turns around barrels in an arena west of Portales.
She, along with other horse owners, knows that her horse won’t be around forever, and the answer of how to dispose of one is rarely easy.
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