Dr. Michael R. Privett swam alongside a skittish pregnant mare by the light of his rescue team’s boat.
He had gotten into the water with the horse
after she fought, bucked, and turned back twice when pulled behind the
aluminum johnboat earlier in the night. Both times, the mare started
fighting about 100 yards from the barn where she and others had fled
after the team had tried to catch them in flooded pastures.
Each time, the mare had pulled the boat back
to the barn, where the water was up to Dr. Privett’s shoulders and to
the withers of a 1,000-pound horse.
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