‘This saved my life’: the emotional alchemy bonding traumatised veterans and damaged racehorses

In the NSW southern highlands, Horse Aid is working to ‘un-soldier’ former defence personnel and ‘un-race’ thoroughbredsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailScott Brodie and Mel Baker stand in the middle of the indoor training ring on a horse farm in the New South Wales southern highlands. A magnificent black gelding and former racehorse, Treble Clef, canters around the rails, stopping now and then, pricking its ears and regarding them quizzically.Brodie, a 60-year-