Tom Too: 10-year-old flaxen chestnut Belgian gelding

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Tom Too is a retired competitive pulling horse.  He foundered in his front right foot however, and the strain of pulling on his front feet caused his sole to drop and his coffin bone to rotate dangerously close to puncturing the bottom of his hoof.  His owners, though, wanted to compete with the other half of his team, but could only keep two horses, Tom Too’s teammate and his replacement, so they surrendered him to Blue Star in the hopes that we could heal his foundered foot and find him a new home with a new career.  Tom Too’s foot is on the mend – it needs to grow out and has been growing nicely, in addition to corrective shoeing – and he has found his career as official spokeshorse for Blue Star Equiculture.  He is far and away the largest horse we have on the farm, measuring at 19.2 hands high.  He is also the heaviest.  Tom Too is Tom Too because Tom from Philadelphia was already here.  Tom Too is not second best, so he is not Tom II, but also Tom.  Tom Too.  Tom Too is easily picked out of the herd from his large size and the “divot” in his neck near the withers from an old injury from a collar.

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