Injured racehorse is her dream come true
Susie Harris grasped tightly to the lead rope connecting her to the injured racehorse, a gentle animal who was the physical embodiment of what she had always wanted. Hardly daring to believe, Harris heard the words: “Take him. He’s yours.” “That was three years ago,” Harris says. “Today, I’m 51, and I can say that dreams really do come true.” The California-based horse fanatic grew up riding other peoples’ horses, but long ago, financial realities imposed, and made her give up the childhood dream to own her own. Her life proceeded along happily enough. She went to college and studied […]
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Donna Brothers: Derby’s daring sportscaster
Dirt stung her face and bounced off her goggles like gravel on a windshield from a speeding truck. She flinched, and crouched lower in the saddle. Beneath her, the striving, rushing Thoroughbred waited for a signal: where did she want him to go? They’d rocketed from the gait and had surged only a few paces when, in her peripheral vision, a solid wall of galloping horses squeezed from the right toward the rail; and, horses to her left struggled to hold their position. In the thick of her first race, the petite, 21-year-old “girl jockey” had mere seconds to make […]
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Clubhouse Q&A: Catching up with Circuitous
Associates at New York-based Mosaic Racing Stable agreed long ago that if the horses who ran for them were not well taken care of, they would have no part of the racing business. “The agreement,” explained managing partner Monica Driver in a March interview with OffTrackThoroughbreds.com, “is that the horse will always come first. We will make sure we take care of our horses.” Horses are cross-trained in second disciplines and hacked on trail rides to keep them happy, in preparation for their next-careers, after their racing days end. And at the slightest hint of an injury, as was the […]
