Clubhouse Q&A: Her dream home on the range
To anyone who has ever sat at a desk breathing stale dry air and reading through snippy emails from their boss, Jessica Creighton, equestrian and now, sole owner and operator of her own 266-acre Freer Prospect Farm in Maine, leads an enviable life. Far from a world of sleep deprived colleagues, her fuzzy faced farm animals and ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds all flock to see her, seeking food, yes, but providing deep reward to a young lady who works sunup to sundown making hay the old-fashioned way. In this week’s Clubhouse Q&A, Creighton took time away from her very busy schedule to […]
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Gift horse caps a very bad year on joyous note
After a year facing the kind of tragedy that would test a much older person, a smile spread across the face of 15-year-old Emma Savaglio last week when she walked into the barn and realized the ex-racehorse in the red bow was hers. After a tragic year that began when the family horse lost his battle with colic, only to be followed and compounded later by the inexorably sad death of a young girl’s 16-year-old boyfriend to cancer, Amy Savaglio and her teenage daughter Emma cried often and smiled rarely. As the months marched toward her daughter’s 16th birthday, Amy […]
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CANTER lauded in Breeders’ Cup spot
National ex-racehorse charity CANTER was prominently featured last weekend in an NBC news story that aired at the start of its Breeders’ Cup coverage. The three-minute vignette included interviews with Allie Conrad, executive director of CANTER Mid Atlantic, and Jessica Morthole, volunteer re-trainer. In addition, it featured footage of CANTER PA volunteer Amy Smith riding an off-track Thoroughbred. The nationally televised story, although brief, shined a welcome spotlight in the middle of horseracing’s richest meet. The lens focused on the hard work being done to support horses who rarely shine in the big leagues, and if they do, often fall […]
