‘Team Thoroughbred’ rolls into showgrounds
When Pennsylvania horse trainer Cheryl Keller rolled into the Quentin Riding Club with 14 ex-racehorses in tow, you might say she had a point to make. Dubbing her crew of riders and volunteers “Team Thoroughbred” they descended upon the show grounds of the all-breed event with the single-minded purpose of, well, showing off. “It was a great marketing tool to take the horses out and show other riders how wonderful horses just off the track can be,” says Keller, a trainer for New Vocations Racehorse Adoption. “All the horses were so well mannered and they were a great tool to […]
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Clubhouse Q&A: Young fan opines on racing biz
The very idea of horseracing once gave Chelsea Fields a bad feeling. The 20-something Gen Y Californian thought there was something unseemly about it, almost creepy. But then it changed. Through her affiliation with Dr. Ken Lian’s veterinarian practice on the West Coast, she got to know real working Thoroughbred racehorses, and she began to see a whole different world. The racetrack, teaming with powerful, glistening Thoroughbreds, was a place where legendary horses like Seabiscuit had drawn thousands of fans decades before, and she soon found that the tracks still carried the mystique of those times, and were only waiting […]
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Shy mare and owner connect up, what a team!
For two hours, Native Kitten pranced around like the proverbial cat on a hot tin roof. Head flung high in the air, the shy mare refused to approach her new owner, no matter how she was coaxed. She would draw near, and then prance away. But her new owner would not rush her. It would be important to take as long as the flighty mare needed for her to start to trust people; after all, it hadn’t been that long since the gorgeous, 15.1-hand ex-racerhad been rescued from the slaughter pipeline. So Allison Gaereminck waited. This was her first horse, […]
