Smooth as Silk: the M
Left to right: Derek Brown, Daryl Lee (employee) and Tia Nelson and their Marchadors.
Tia Nelson, DVM, a farrier for 15 years before becoming a veterinarian in 1999, has been around a lot of horses. In all that time, no one particular breed had ever particularly impressed her as “the one”. “Everybody has their own favorite breed,” Nelson said, “which is great, because somebody needs to champion each of those breeds to continue them in the world. Everybody says their favorite breed is the best, and I
agree, ‘I’m sure they are, for you.’” It wasn’t until a client of Nelson’s, Dr. Tresa Smith, PhD, took Nelson along to Brazil in 2001 to help her pick out Mangalarga Marchador breeding stock. Smith had fallen in love with Brazil’s national breed while on a previous political assignment, and decided that when she retired and her life settled down, she wanted to import some for breeding purposes.
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