Reset And Refreshed Thanks To Family And Horses
At 0h01, on August 31, 2022 • By STANDARDBRED CANADA
The burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers is difficult to understand for those not directly affected. For Nicole Bourgeois-Stocker, it was her everyday reality. So, after two years on the front lines, she returned to her first love, working with Standardbreds.
At mid-morning on a beautiful Tuesday in August, Bourgeois-Stocker is wearing casual athletic wear and a smile on her face in Rick Zeron’s barn at Classy Lane Training Centre, in Puslinch, Ont.
The resident of Guelph, Ont. is working as a caretaker, a job she reprised in March of 2022 after 10 years in health care.