First off, there is me, Wayne Bien a retired (not by my choice) thoroughbred horse trainer and for at least one season an amateur steeplechase rider. I say not by my choice, because a neurological disease called Multiple Sclerosis came into my life 25 years ago, making it physically impossible for me to continue training horses. I did a variety of jobs (none of which I really liked) for the next ten years, until the fatigue, caused by the MS, was so bad I couldn't work two days in a row.
During all this time I never lost my interest in the racetrack and especially riding. Enter hippotherapy.
I was at a MS conference, where my soon to be hippotherapist, Robin Korotki, was putting on a demonstration. It took me awhile to go to my first session; I didn't feel like I needed all of the help in riding a horse Robin offered. But eventually, I knew I had to ride again, no matter what, and started therapy with Robin.
During the last five years I have been riding therapeutically, I never gave up on the idea of owning another horse of my own and that is where this blog begins.
This is My Lil Cup O' Tee (also known as Bouffe) winning his one and only race, in a long (until he was 12) but scattered race career. Now eighteen, Bouffe had spent the last six years standing in the field and only being used as a trail horse occasionally.
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