Suffolk ex-racehorses charm CANTER crowd
Thirteen ex-racehorses found new homes last week at the 7th annual CANTER New England Suffolk Showcase, and eight additional Thoroughbred ex-racehorses were sold shortly after the sales event, according to Jennifer Montfort, event spokeswoman. “It seems like this year we had a lot of serious buyers. It was awfully rainy, so you have to be pretty dedicated to come out and hang out in all that rain,” she says, noting that five prospective buyers showed up with trailers. “We had eventers and hunter/jumper people looking for prospects. It really ran the gamut,” she says, adding that buyers came from New […]
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Joyful lessons from rescue horses
On any given day, on a sprawling 55-acre property that rests between the Wilson Powell Bird Sanctuary on one side and a Quaker retreat on the other, horses saved from frightening circumstances mingle with young and old, students and retirees in a multitude of innovative horse-human experiences. At Little Brook Farm, school children disembark from yellow buses that deliver them to the rural hamlet from Hudson, N.Y. Fresh-faced first-graders take their lunch far away from overhead fluorescent lights and the hum of cafeteria activity; instead, they sprawl across hay piles in the barn loft, their gleeful expressions showing their appreciation […]
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Once destined for slaughter, Grace flourishes
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in OfTrackThoroughbreds in October 2010. What saved the delicate mare from the slaughterhouse 13 years ago was a combination of little things, really. First there was Kim Gatto’s ability to see past the Thoroughbred’s nicked, dull coat to envision her at her best; she saw a beauty beneath the shabby exterior of a horse who stood quietly with 30 others at the Pennsylvania auction house. “I could see that she was really pretty underneath,” Gatto recalls. “She was really petite and delicate.” And the next small thing— the money that would determine who purchased […]
