Ride to remember Several years ago, we wrote about Sperryville’s Maeghan Boucher, a gifted barrel racer, horse trainer and all-around equestrian who has been on horseback since she was just three months old. Her mom, our own Sally Petty of Waggin’ Hearts Therapy Dogs, would ride out and strap her daughter into a child sling; at the culmination of the ride, Maeghan would start crying, Sally recalls, not wanting to be wrested from her snug equine perch. Now 27, the 2006 graduate of Rappahannock County High School is a fearless rider, a survivor and one who has suffered many an injury in pursuit of her passion. (At one medical exam, she was asked to list all the bones she’d broken, to which she respectfully responded that it would just be easier to list the bones she hadn’t.) Both Sally and Maeghan shared the special support of one man, Sally’s dad and Maeghan’s grandfather, who would travel all the way from Massachusetts to see his granddaughter compete in barrel racing. After a year off to train a young horse, Maeghan returned last year to the professional circuit, and “hauls” most every week and weekend and travels far and wide. It’s what […]
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