The Team Roping Journal

CLOSE CALL FOR DUSTIN BIRD’S DOLLY

Dustin Bird was minutes from losing his bay dream ride Dolly this fall to an infection that about swelled her throat shut. Bird had no way of knowing about the perfect storm brewing in the back of his prized mare’s throat that caused the crisis that came to a scary head on a Sunday up in his Montana home country. An emergency tracheotomy performed by Dr. Caleb Lund

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