Cloud’s Honor purses funded horse charity
Long before the little gray yearling grew to be a racing warhorse whose winnings would eventually help fund a Thoroughbred charity, she was just a $4,000 sale horse. But she walked into the Fastig-Tipton ring with the presence of a prizefighter. “The way she carries herself, it’s as though the whole world revolves around her,” says Kimberly Clark, a Maryland exercise rider and trainer who, along with her husband William, succumbed to the filly’s charm in 2002. “My husband was the one who bought her for me,” she says. “If you could see her, you’d understand why: she was like […]
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Wild Fury blazes into hunter/jumper career
When Wendy Basham is ready to fly, Wild Fury will be ready to help her soar. He has been practicing so hard. When he is riderless in the arena, turned loose to conquer a complicated grid of jumps, the chestnut gelding free jumps with such zeal that after finishing, he tries to start all over again. “He’s so happy when he’s jumping through the complicated grids that he will happily jump through and do it again and again until we physically stop him,” Basham says. “We have to make sure the fence heights are not too short or he’ll test […]
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Sherborn is a guiding light for children
Tentative at first, a child lifts a hand to touch the velvet muzzle of the shiny chestnut Thoroughbred. The horse lowers his mighty head pushing his soft nose into the outstretched hand. Reassuring the child he answers the unasked question: Yes, I will help. To a child diagnosed and suffering with depression, anxiety, or other special circumstances, life can often be difficult and dark. But for a lucky few who find their way to an innovative horse-therapy program offered at Newington, N.H. riding stable Wild Irish Farm, life becomes somehow better when they get to take riding lessons on a […]
