Chasing Atticus was key to Kiersten Tricker's success in the ring

BAZETTA

Kiersten Tricker of Kinsman was only 3 when her family met a man with a terminal illness who needed to get rid of eight mini-horses.

They took all eight to add to the one Kiersten’s mother, Tanya, already owned — and Kiersten’s love of horses was born.

“They were my pasture pets,” said Kiersten, now 15.

When she was about 10, she got a horse named Chase to show at the Trumbull County Fair. But after 18 months, Chase developed severe colic, a digestive condition, and suddenly died just days before the deadline to register to show him at that summer’s fair.

The family found a horse named Atticus on the internet and quickly bought him. Kiersten showed him at the fair a month later.

“I was planning to have a good fair with him,” Kiersten said of Chase. “It was an emotional time. He was my best friend.”

But read what happened with Atticusin Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.