For horse lovers, this is such a great story.

[Bayard]

6. Amish? No kidding?

They will usually only have dark colored horses with few markings. We have a lot of them in this area, and most stores have hitching posts in the parking lot. There are a number of breeders of Standardbreds here to sell to the Amish, because they are always dark colors, and have that natural trotting action.

I couldn't tell on the shoe the farrier pulled, but Amish often put borium studs on the shoes to give better grip on the roads. That may have been part of her relief, because the studs tend to, "grab on," to a surface.