Jockey’s daughter heads to Preliminary on OTTB
Exploding across the finish line, jockey Marsha Spencer swept to victory in a hail of dirt and dust aboard Thoroughbred Uh Oh Pigeon. That was 1983, at the Charles Town Races. It would be her last race as a jockey. When the horse was settled back in a stall, and her tack was cleaned and put away, Spencer walked away from a hard-fought career riding Quarter Horses, and later, Thoroughbreds, at a time in racing history when few females had an opportunity compete in the predominantly male sport. Her experiences on the track could fill a novel. And they would […]
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Suffolk horse softens a bereft mother’s grief
When her athletic, young son slipped suddenly from her life, Janet King felt as if the air went rushing from her. “The wind went out of my sails,” she says. Her 22-year-old son Devin Kravitz had been such a constant in her life. Brimming with hope about his future as a police officer, he was eagerly preparing to join the police academy in his hometown of Charlton, Mass. And like his equestrian mother, he lived for sports as well. He played soccer and football as a youth and was a passionate dirt bike racer. But it is the hours he […]
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Jackson is their black beauty from Camelot
Even in the unflattering photographs of auction horses at the Camelot Feedlot in NJ, the gleam of his dappled, healthy coat, and his fitness of form were apparent. Jackson stood out in a crowd. “He looked like a show horse,” says Sonia Stratemann. “He was sitting up in that auction” to potential meat buyers “all dappled up, with a pulled mane, looking amazing, like a classic Thoroughbred.” She went to bed that night, last October, and couldn’t sleep. She tossed and turned, wondering what the horse’s fate would be. Would a new owner snap him up or would he wind […]
