Swimming with a Thoroughbred recaptures joy
The water rippled and swirled before his pawing hoof. He was unsure. A lake, after all, was not part of the customary scenery for a typical racehorse and Kim’s Rahy, a veteran of the track, wasn’t so sure he wanted to find out what it was. But his rider was sure. With the same certainty that guided Laurie Tuozzolo to choose the former Suffolk Downs racer as her next horse, she knew that if he would just get in, he’d like it. So she hopped off his back, and holding the reins, walked calmly into the water ahead of him. […]
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Ex-racehorse surges onward with armored rider
Left in an Ontario pasture for years, High on the Rye looked wasted. Flaccid muscles that once rippled with strength were barely able to support his weight. His front hooves curved inward, and in order to support his body weight, the once graceful racehorse contorted his back legs so far forward that he stood with all four feet awkwardly close together. Jenny Mutter entered the forgotten racehorse’s life hoping to find a foxhunting prospect. He looked pretty good in the picture she saw online. But on the day they met, he didn’t look nearly so well. “The first thing I […]
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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 […]
