COCHRANVILLE, PA–It was just past midnight when Boyd Martin answered his ringing phone. The screams on the other end of the line were loud enough to wake his wife.
There’s a fire, said the voice, one of Martin’s employees who lived near the stables where Martin kept his horses. The stables are in flames and horses are trapped inside.
Martin bolted from his bed, threw on a T-shirt and flip-flops, and sprinted out of the home where he and his wife had moved two months before. It was Memorial Day 2011, a year before Martin hoped to ride his favorite horse, a frenetic Australian thoroughbred named Neville Bardos, in the equestrian events of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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