Fundraiser for Charles Town horsemen set
The Charles Town HBPA will hold a fundraiser next week for horsemen and women who lost a “lifetime investment” along with their racehorses in the fire that leveled four barns and killed 29 horses last week. Fire victims who were using private stables not associated with the Charles Town Races were not covered by the casino and track’s insurance policy, according to Ken Lowe, president of the Charles Town HBPA . The need is great. “The affected owners have not only suffered the emotional toll of losing (their horses), but also have lost a lifetime investment,” Lowe says. As Lowe […]
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MSPCA-Angell names Blowen ‘Human Hero’
The former Boston Globe reporter who founded Thoroughbred retirement facility Old Friends of Kentucky, will be honored next month by MSPCA-Angell with a Human Hero Award. Michael Blowen, a longtime entertainment writer turned equine advocate extraordinaire, exemplifies the ideals of MSPCA-Angell founder George T. Angell, says the organization’s president, Carter Luke. Both Angell and Blowen were moved to get involved with equine welfare when they learned about horse tragedies, Luke says. The MSPCA-Angell was founded after Angell learned that two horses had been raced to the death; and Blowen founded Old Friends for pensioned racehorses when learning Kentucky Derby winner […]
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Undaunted by spills, horse and rider carry on
Alisa Gusterer knows first hand what Ralph Waldo Emerson meant when he wrote, “Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby. She has hit the dirt many times in the last year. But no matter how often the 17-year-old has been unseated by her bright, white Thoroughbred, she has climbed back in the saddle, even when all logic seemed to argue against it. “The first time I put my foot in the stirrup he reared and ran away,” she says. Many times after that, he left her on the ground to tear around the arena. “There was another time, when […]
