Clubhouse Q&A: Kimberly Clark on the bit fit
Before Kimberly Clark founded Thoroughbred Placement Resources, Inc., a nationally certified charity, she spent decades training racehorses and ex-racehorses. And among the many lessons learned was how to take care of their mouths, and to be sensitive to their individual shapes. In this week’s Clubhouse Q&A, Clark continues the discussion of bits, and how to find the right one for your OTTB. Q: What is your background with horses? I galloped, trained and owned Thoroughbred racehorses since the late 80’s in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey and Florida. In 2007, I began to re-home retiring Thoroughbred racehorses, […]
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Sharkey Time carries on grand horse tradition
MacKenzie Ferguson’s grandmother never could confine herself to what was expected of a lady in the 1950s. Far from card games in chintz-filled rooms, Liz Ferguson was crouched, unladylike in the irons, piloting a Thoroughbred over Minnesota racetracks at a time in history when this type of behavior by a woman just wasn’t done. And even when she’d grown older, her spirited personality never failed to elicit a flash of spunk when summer came, and it was time to dive from the heat, straight into the cool depths of a nearby pond. “She was still doing front handsprings off the […]
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Young fan given son of Smarty Jones
Ten-year-old Madison Scott was playing in the backyard of her Texas home when her father yelled for her to hurry and come inside; history was in the making. The television in the Scott family’s living room was tuned to The Belmont Stakes, the third and final race of the legendary Triple Crown. And on that June day in 2004, sports fans like her father, who didn’t usually follow horse racing, paused to watch chestnut colt Smarty Jones make a flying bid at winning what hadn’t been won in decades. “My dad called me in to watch. He said a horse was going […]
