This P.E.I. horse got surgery to fix his rare crooked nose. Now, his owner says he could race

Benny looks like every other horse these days. You can barely tell he was born with a rare deformity that made his face crooked. He recently had surgery at the AVC to straighten his face to help him breathe better. Post-surgery it's it's just been tenfold the other way like I think he's just really came around yeah like obviously recovery and healing but I think overall he his quality of life is is ten times what it was prior. This is what Benny looked like at just a few days old, and this is what he looks like now. He was born with rhinos, which affects a horse's jaw alignment. In Benny's case, it caused his face to be crooked, and he could only breathe through one of his nostrils. Shepard says they could have decided not to do surgery since Benny's quality of life was good, even with the deformity. But it is like a pretty, a pretty normal side effect to have pneumonia and have horses deal with pneumonia with rhinos. So, for Benny's quality of life, which is what our biggest concern was, we did decide to do the surgery and obviously decreased that risk of pneumonia by basically 100%. Shepard says Benny's surgery was successful and he is recovering. Benny has had no problem adjusting to his new face and eating as normal. Shepard says she couldn't be more proud of him. I feel like what a parent would feel when their kid goes to school or when their kid gets their first, you know, like their first good grade or whatever the case may be. Yeah, it's just incredible that a little foal that kind of got brought into the world and we weren't quite sure what was going to happen at first has made it this far. The goal is for Benny to become a racehorse. Shepard says he has another full year of growing and recovering to do before he starts learning the tricks of the trade. But she says Benny is as tough as any other horse and thinks he will persevere and hopefully be behind the starting gate in a couple years. Taylor O'Brien, CBC News, Brackley.