Once goofy steeplechaser heads to Grand Prix
All ears, head and legs, La Grange was quite a site. Already rejected as a steeplechase prospect, the two-year-old gangly oddball was offered to the team of James Paxson and Priscilla Godsoe, of River Hills Fox Hounds; What they saw was no beauty. “He was so rangy looking. He was in good weight, but very immature looking, almost unattractive,” Godsoe says. “Of course, I fell in love with him right away.” From that point in 2007, Godsoe made it her mission to get La Grange to smarten up, pay attention, and start looking like a winner. Inside of their first […]
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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 […]
