Seattle Slew grandson runs away with her heart
Trotting briskly through flowering apple orchards, her heavyset, old-world type Thoroughbred looked like he’d walked off the pages of a Blood-Horse Magazine from 50 years ago. Ears forward, he seemed a little uptight; he was ready for anything. Now, sitting deep in her saddle, Tamara Sheremata coaxed the spunky grandson of Seattle Slew to follow the pack of trail horses. Up ahead, the lead rider suddenly announced she was going to do a “little cantering.” And that’s when ex-racehorse Thoroughbred Breaking the Rules must have heard the bell of the starting gait! Like a shot, he shifted into overdrive and […]
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Renaissance Thoroughbred show this weekend
Sometime after Donald V. Little died in a riding accident in Wellington, Fla., Fiona Farrell got to thinking about what a renaissance man he had been. Not only was he the successful founder of Centennial Farms racing syndicate, and master of the foxhounds at the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton, Mass., he was also senior vice president of investments at the global financial services company UBS. His zest for life, his continued renewal of spirit that kept him riding over fences well into his late 70s was something to be admired. And while the meaning of Renaissance man played around […]
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Her horses, joyous life—it wasn’t handed to her
There was never a horse in a big red bow waiting for Nancy Richards when she was a kid. Though she pined, like so many little girls her age, for a gallant steed like the one who pranced across the pages of The Black Stallion, her parents were unmoved by her impassioned pleas. From the get-go, they made it clear. If she wanted a horse, she had to earn the money to pay for it. “Growing up, I don’t think many people understood how much I wanted horses in my life,” says Richards, now 26. “But I knew what I […]
