By Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Times Staff Writer
SEMINOLE — In the spring of 1978, a time when Jimmy Carter was president and Annie Hall was the best picture of the year, a group of vocational students were taking shifts in a pasture behind Seminole Vocational Education Center.
A horse named Sugar was expected to deliver a foal.
It happened at night. Toby, a black Appaloosa with white spots, was the first horse ever born at the school.
A year later, his coat had lightened to a mottled gray.
"He was an ornery guy in his younger years, but he was always a very loving guy," said Peggy Biram, a teacher in the school's veterinary program for 23 years.
As he matured, Toby displayed a personality both gentle and stubborn. Instead of jumping over a rail with an equestrian rider aboard, he was known to ...
