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Few people ever call up the courage to create the life they envision, leaving their dreams forever unfulfilled. But Jo Anne Normile did just that, only to find she was living the wrong dream....

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Jo Anne Normile, principal of Normile Racehorse Protection Consulting, advises senators, congressmen, filmmakers, legal firms, rescues, and humane organizations on all aspects of racing pertaining to the welfare of the Thoroughbred racehorse and the integrity of the industry. Normile also founded two successful horse rescue organizations: CANTER, the first organization to take Thoroughbreds right from the track to safe havens and which now has chapters across the country; and Saving Baby Equine Charity (www.savingbaby.org), for which she serves as president. In addition, she serves on the board of directors of Animal Advocates of Michigan and is a member of the Equine Welfare Alliance as well as an advisory board member for the documentary film, Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed. Normile has received the Catalyst of the Year Award from the Michigan Horse Council for her significant contribution to the Michigan horse industry and the national Dogwood Stable Dominion Award as an unsung hero of the racing industry. She was described in The Thoroughbred Times as having rescued more horses than any other organization in the equine industry. Normile has coauthored studies on equine self-mutilation syndrome and compulsive behavior in horses that appeared in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Journal of Applied Research in Veterinary Medicine. She was also cited for her contributions to a paper published in Food and Chemical Toxicology about the public health risk of horsemeat laced with phenylbutazone, or bute, routinely given to Thoroughbred racers. Normile has provided exhibits for a watershed Congressional hearing on the use of drugs in racehorses and has been an invited speaker at equine safety meetings around the country. Lawrence Lindner is a New York Times best-selling coauthor and collaborating writer on a wide variety of books ranging from memoirs to animal care to health topics. He also penned a nationally syndicated biweekly column in The Washington Post for several years and wrote a monthly column for The Boston Globe. His freelance work has appeared in publications ranging from The Los Angeles Times to Conde Nast Traveler, the International Herald Tribune, Reader's Digest, and O, the Oprah Magazine. Currently, he serves as executive editor of Your Dog, a monthly publication of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, and as secretary of Saving Baby Equine Charity.

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