Ever had a handful of a horse, one you just couldn’t do anything with? Try as you might, nothing seems to work, and every effort to help him live his best life just isn’t cutting it. The result is misery all around, not to mention a potentially dangerous situation.

So it was with a Thoroughbred named Smoke. The star of this episode, he was what some might call a “bad actor.” But things are about to change for him bigtime, and you’ll want to hear the rest of his story.

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