Misses Cowy Makes A Wish by Rocky Muscia

In an emotional statement post-race, Cody’s father Leslie said: “I think that horse has the legs Cody wasn’t given, put those two together and they make the perfect one.Ĭody’s Wish (11:7-1-3) is not only a horse that saw an instant connection with a young boy in a wheelchair but is a racehorse who has made all the difference in Cody’s life. In a story made for Hollywood, on November 5, Cody’s Wish won the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and Cody was front and center on track, cheering home his champion. In what can be described as nothing less than a miracle, with Cody on track to watch his best friend race, Cody’s Wish went on to not only win his maiden, but six of his next seven races. In 2021, the young horse was eventually named Cody’s Wish, and was a maiden after three race starts.Ĭody had an idea and adamantly told his family that Cody’s Wish will not win until he was there. Watch Cody's Wish race tomorrow on at 1:10 PM ET. The emotional story of how a racehorse changed a boys life. He has always looked for me and we have the same heart and drive, we never give up,” Dorman said. “He found me, and he hasn’t forgotten me.

The bond with this horse changed everything for Cody. “It was like the horse knew who was there to see him,” he said. Mulvihill was once again in awe as this now two-year-old thoroughbred colt ‘kept pulling until again he was right in front of Cody, where Cody could stroke him’. “The hardest thing we’ve dealt with and watched him go through is depression,” Cody’s parents said. In 2020, after watching their son additionally struggle with severe depression, Cody’s parents got the idea to go back and visit that horse they had met two years earlier to lift Cody’s spirits. It all started from that extraordinary moment.

“What happened from there was special, the foal just came up and laid his head down on Cody’s lap and just spent some quiet time there with Cody.” Stud Farm Manager Danny Mulvihill arranged an introduction with a ‘mild mannered six-month-old weanling’. In 2018, Cody made a wish to meet a racehorse, and with the help of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Cody and his parents Kelly and Leslie, with sister Kylie, went to Godolphin’s Gainsborough Farm in Kentucky.

This is the story of a racehorse that saved a young boy’s life.Ĭody Dorman suffers from Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome (WHS), a rare genetic disorder that affects many parts of the body, resulting in delayed growth and development, intellectual disability, low muscle tone and seizures.ĭoctors told the Dorman family that Cody would only live for two years and although he is now 16 years-old, Cody has spent a lifetime overcoming long odds. Since 1984, the world’s best thoroughbreds have competed in the Breeders’ Cup, but in the history of the race there are few stories as heartwarming and miraculous as Cody’s Wish and Cody Dorman.

Misses Cowy Makes A Wish by Rocky Muscia