08/30/2026
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🐴 When Katrina hit New Orleans on 29 August 2005, a carriage horse called Howard was left standing in his stable in belly-deep water.
He could not get out. He could not be told what was happening. He simply stood in it, in the dark, while the city came apart around him.
Eventually he was moved to a park, and then on 4 September to the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center, the enormous holding site where thousands of stranded animals were gathered and sorted and, sometimes, matched with someone new.
Kami Wolk, of Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, bought him. She also gave him a new name — Hurricane Bay — which is either the bravest or the most honest thing you can do with a history like his. She did not hide what happened to him. She hung it on him like a title.
And then he went eventing. Less than three years after standing in floodwater in a New Orleans stable, Hurricane Bay finished 7th out of 22 in his first Preliminary event.
A city horse who had never been asked to jump anything at all became a cross-country competitor in his second life.
If a horse can start over that completely, what does that say about how much they carry forward?
