In brief: Zoe wins first dressage show
Meghan Bilz and her off-track Thoroughbred Zoe proved last Sunday that their “relentless pursuit of perfection” can pay dividends. The pair won their first dressage show— the Oak Rise Dressage and 2-Phase Show on May 16. They were also named the Reserve High Point Rider of the Day, a distinction pitting them against all other riders at the show in Goffstown, N.H. What was going through your head as you did your Training Level Test 1? Don’t forget the test and stay in the ring! Actually, Zoe was a little nervous about the judge’s booth, and there were some gusty […]
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A best friend to horses
Michael Blowen didn’t set out to oversee a Shangri-La for ex-racehorses in the Kentucky bluegrass. He set out to teach film at Emerson College in Boston. When that didn’t work out, he went to work for the Boston Globe as an entertainment writer, and somewhere along the way horses got into his blood the way ink seeps into a newspaperman’s veins. It all began fairly innocuously. “One day my editor Robert Taylor, who was a brilliant editor who made my mediocre prose something worth reading, invited me to go to the track,” Blowen says. “I was 31, and up to […]
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Riding lessons
Stat Box Racing name: Zoe Lion New name: Zoe Sire: Silent Landing Dam: Timely Weather Age: 10 Height: 16 Color: Dark bay An English lit grad and former captain of the UMass Dartmouth equestrian team finds one of the hardest lessons these days is making a circle. Intellect and athlete Meghan Bilz says she has a renewed respect for that curvaceous geometric shape, and for that matter, the straight line, when riding in a dressage saddle on her off-track Thoroughbred (and study partner) Zoe. “I’ve got a hunter/jumper background, and I always thought a circle was just a circle, and […]
