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Saving Tony Before we can go forward, we have to know where we have been..... Here's the story on the horse that inspired me. Tony in the Paddock as the snow begins to fall! In July of 2006 we lost my father’s Clydesdale gelding, Benjamin, to a bought of colic that lasted several days. I was 20 years old at the time and working long hours in the family landscaping business during the summer break from college. I spent those hot, humid evenings after work tending to the giant horse, thinking that I could get him through his predicament if I just kept fighting for him. The vet was back and forth multiple times to barn with mixed results. We tubed him, walked him for hours, washed him down, and pumped electrolytes down his throat over and over again until he finally seemed to turn the corner. Thinking that the old horse was out of the woods, we opted to turn him out with the others in the pasture for the night. After three days of extreme highs and lows in triple digi