$300K winner falls at Finger Lakes into great life
Rocketing toward the finish line, in a frenzied, final push to win, the dark bay gelding stumbled suddenly, and went crashing to the ground. Just shy of the final pole at the Finger Lakes Race Track last year, the great warhorse began to fall, but before completely hitting the dirt, Out From Africa did what he had done so faithfully in his grindingly long seven-year career. He finished the race. When the strikingly beautiful gelding who, by now, had grown nasty and had soured on people, regained his feet, he was placed 8th in Race 2 on June 6, 2011. […]
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Irish blacksmith is horse portrait artist with soul
Sixth generation Irish blacksmith Tony O’Connor says he grew up “with a pencil in one hand and a hammer in the other.” His eye for equine beauty combined with his draftsmanship talent and skill, impelled him to study art in his native Ireland, and today, although the art of horse shoeing runs in his bloodlines, it is the poetry of painting that sustains him. In this weeks’ Clubhouse Q&A, O’Connor talks about his craft, inspiration and goals. Q: Please tell me about your background as an artist. Where did you receive your art training, and who are some of the […]
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Afleet Alex’s son is a gift from her lost Dad
Every once and a while, Tara MacLeod’s father Billy would call to ask if she still wanted him to hang on to her tack-box filled with bridles and saddles from her youth. Someone, he’d explain, had expressed an interest in buying it. And when she replied that yes, she wanted to keep it stored at his home, where it’d been tucked away for 20 years, he’d simply chuckle with fatherly understanding. Although he wasn’t a horse person, he was an “animal person” who freely indulged his daughter’s passion; he bought those saddles for her way back when, and stored them […]
