In 2004, Cindy Besser's daughter came home from a horse sale with a young colt named Fritz, "magnificent, pure perfection." Within months he was losing weight, muscle and part of his stomach lining, and no feed, supplement or remedy helped. The cause turned out to be a severe allergy to the mold that grows naturally on grain. A roasted feed turned him around in two weeks, "nothing short of a miracle," Cindy says. When that feed was discontinued, Cindy, a lifelong horsewoman, worked with an equine nutritionist to create her own. That feed became Roasted To Perfection, still a family business in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota.