Ticket to Saratoga rises above life’s events
Sheri Thornley never meant to keep the good-looking gelding. From the moment she scoped him out and walked him onto her trailer, not even taking time to see if he trotted soundly, she felt the horse exuded potential as a big-ticket show horse. She was right and she was wrong. Ticket to Saratoga did in fact develop into a brave, talented jumper, competing in Florida and attracting potential buyers. Twice in fact, Thornley came close to selling Toga, but something always happened, sending the horse ambling back onto the trailer, and heading home with her. Thornley could not foresee in […]
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Tall Glass sails over Ontario jumper circuit
Edie Urbasik worried what she’d tell people on the show circuit. She didn’t want to explain that the reason she wasn’t riding her ex-racehorse was due to the crushed vertebrae she sustained in an accident the year before. He was green at the time, when he bucked her to the ground, but now, with the guidance and soft hands of a talented, young rider, the ex-racehorse was turning out to be a very special competition horse. And the last thing Urbasik wanted to do was focus on the negative at his first show. Discussing the matter one night with her […]
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Habitworthaving leaves pasture for show career
Habitworthaving once worried himself sick. He fretted about being confined to a stall after years living in a pasture, and was nervous around other horses. It got so bad, when he first came to live with Amy Bush, that the chunky gelding grew skinny with ulcers, and even opened up a deep cut on his leg after scuffling with other horses. “He’d been out to pasture for so long that I don’t think he knew how to handle the change. I have four children and it’s not exactly a quiet place,” Bush says. “I think he just wanted to be […]
