Dylan Lloyd, who turns 6 today, settles into the saddle on Annika, with help from Angels on Horseback volunteer coordinator Aimee Gamboa, while his mother, Dawn Lloyd, helps to steady him.
Susan Griffin, right, is a horse trainer and head of the Angels equine therapy program in Exeter, where Dylan is
trying to improve his strength and flexibility, after a fall when he was a baby left him with a spinal cord injury.

Even at age 4, Billy Naughton is savvy enough to know it's more fun to play than work.
So if you ask him whether he'd rather do stretching exercises in a physical therapists office or
on the back of a sleek putty-colored palomino named Butterscotch,
what's a little guy to say? Billy squeals and grins from ear to ear as Butterscotch carries him around the ring At
Angels on Horseback in Exeter RI, Rhode Island's newest therapeutic riding center.