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Marin Woman's Horse Therapy Nonprofit Still Going Strong After 40 Years

"I bucked off a horse named Dill Pickle - never ride a horse named Dill Pickle - and broke my shoulder in 19 places," she said.

(CBS News)

July 10, 2023

MARIN - A Marin County woman's horse riding accident decades ago helped spur an idea that began one of the oldest weekly therapeutic horseback riding programs in the Bay Area.

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Joyce Goldfield has always loved horses, even though she had a bad fall nearly 50 years ago while volunteering at a Marin County horse ranch.

"I bucked off a horse named Dill Pickle - never ride a horse named Dill Pickle - and broke my shoulder in 19 places," she said.

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