Rasor D slays new owner
Stat Box Tattoo: Z28224 Race name: Rasor D Barn name: Manny Sire: Prince Of Fame Dam: Like An Angel Foal date: April 20, 1996 A horse-crazy suburban girl for whom horse ownership was once out of reach is now living the dream. An exercise rider turned off-track Thoroughbred trainer, Wendy Landin parlayed her passion into ownership of a seasoned ex-racehorse, which she purchased from Suffolk Downs trainer Paul Thornton four years ago. The father of T.D. Thornton, author of “Not By A Long Shot, A Season at a Hard-Luck Horse Track,” placed his long serving horse up for sale on […]
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‘I get along with Thoroughbreds, it’s an affinity’
With a casualness that could describe a walk in the park, Englishwoman and Thoroughbred devotee Shelagh Davidson recounts her eventing and timber-race escapades, and latest “project” horse, Nitro. The competitive rider who trains with top-level equestrian Sally Cousins has enjoyed a long partnership with off-track Thoroughbreds so successful that two years ago she qualified to compete in the mid-Atlantic’s Morven Park three-day event. “It had been a dream of mine to participate in their long format event,” she says. And she owes it to her other off-track Thoroughbred Calvin for getting her there and carrying her through the series of […]
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Calm after the ‘Storm’
Stat Box Sire: February Storm Dam: Cooldrink Foal date: March 22, 2006 Ashley Hardin had a bit of a rocky start with Thoroughbreds. Nothing horrible. But after years of smooth sailing on her Quarter Horse the first venture with an off-track Thoroughbred was a bit of a jolt. “I picked him up in 2001 and he turned out to be very mean. He loved me to death, but he wouldn’t let anybody else get near him. When people tried, he’d spook and buck,” Hardin says. In 2007, she sold that first horse to a new owner who still has him, […]
