The long inquiry into her disappearance broadened when one contact led to another in the silky world of expensive horseflesh, and stories began to emerge of heavily insured animals .
His trainer was the terminally taciturn Tom Smith (Chris Cooper), who had a flinty sympathy for damaged and derided horseflesh.
Colorado State's Grandin, who helped refine standards for humane livestock slaughter, says Americans have an "ick" factor when it comes to the idea of horseflesh, equating it, she .