Saving Baby: How One Woman’s Love for a Racehorse Led to Her Redemption

Jo Anne Normile was not supposed to keep the foal, an exuberant Thoroughbred with only a few white hairs on his reddish-brown forehead. But she fell in love with the young horse, who had literally been born into her arms. The breeder finally said she could keep the colt, whom she nicknamed Baby – but only if she raced him. It was a vision she found appealing.