August Parker rode a horse for the first time on the 53rd day of his life. The big blood bay, Emmy Lou, knew after sniffing his barren and exposed little head, that he was too young to sit upright and lacked other skills in the saddle necessary for travel--and so she stepped very carefully and not too far. Since then, he has slept to low equine murmurs, the cadence of their hoof-falls, and wakes to the odor of their coats--sorrel, roan, bay, seal brown--from the window of his mother's bedroom. He is the incumbent lactation efficacy consultant and director of all matters mammary, slobbery, and insomniac at RHRC.