I am an enormous fan of Chris Cooper. He is the American character actor who performed Tom Smith within the film Seabiscuit. I believed it was a superb efficiency that managed to seize the quiet and introspective nature of this humble horseman who skilled Seabiscuit to be a thoroughbred champion; that turned a nationwide hero to tens of millions of melancholy weary People within the 1930’s. I by some means recognized with him as a result of he was a person of few phrases and deep expertise, and really holistic in his strategy to animal well being and wellbeing. So being impressed by the film considerably I went out and purchased the e book.
Now here is the factor. I learn the e book Seabiscuit, An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand, and was not solely swept off my toes by this epic story, however I additionally was stunned to study that Tom Smith labored completely with natural and pure cures to remedy and help the best racehorse on the planet. Are you able to think about how that may sound right now?
All through the 339 pages of the narrative, there are dozens of examples of how Tom handled Seabiscuit’s monitor accidents; calling within the vet solely when it was completely essential during which X-Ray’s needed to be taken to disclose a sliver fracture in a foreleg after a race.
From what I can deduce, Smith made positive Seabiscuit’s feed was wealthy in calcium and he used home made liniment on his legs, which was a natural concoction that he made himself that was principally composed of eucalyptus or peppermint and stimulating herbs reminiscent of cayenne and presumably ginger — combined along with important oils and married to a rubbing or grain alcohol as a base. However regardless of the true combine he used, and its secret is now misplaced eternally, Tom Smith the lone horseman from the western plains was a holistic healer far forward of his time. A real horse whisperer.
by William Greenbaum, aka love ya woof!
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