When quarter horse gelding Wrangler acted up and bolted at a horse show, his owner, Anjanette Nicolazzo knew something was amiss. “I was baffled,” says Nicolazzo. “I had ridden him for eight months prior to this and he had never done anything of the sort. I knew his bolting was a cry for help because it was so out of character for him.” In fact, this smart, show-winning horse had been hiding a highly painful condition known as kissing spine, in which the vertebrae touch or grind against each other.
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