Rafalca - she’s America’s Horse! Cheer her on!

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22. lol, yes the physical discomforts are a barrier to a lot of would-be horse lovers :)

sore butts (not to mention hamstrings), the smell (which I personally like, but many do not), and the work of cleaning up your tack, your horse, and your horse's poop.

I get what you mean entirely. I have no problem with the Romneys doing dressage, and I can identify with the joy that Ann Romney gets out of watching her horse perform. But as much as it might be incidentally beneficial to living with MS, it is not necessarily directly tied to therapy for that MS. "Owning a top-tier dressage horse" is a form of therapy that is not likely to be covered by anyone's insurance, even under Obamacare.