![]() “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. ![]()
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