After leg fracture, gray mare helps people
Walk among the horses milling around the dusty, well-trampled arena, and it won’t be long before she finds you. Her gray muzzle, soft and inquiring, will tickle you as she draws near. And, if she really likes you, she’ll press her delicate head against you, and wrap her neck around you in a hug. To be chosen by the gray mare, Lila B, is a moment that brings optimism, even joy, to those participating in a unique horse-therapy program in upstate New York. At RoseWal Farm, where Lila B lives with her herd, people struggling with a range of psychological […]
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Q&A: The unstoppable Allie Conrad
Allie Conrad, executive director of CANTER Mid Atlantic, and a national CANTER board member, is funny, irreverent, and an outspoken voice for ex-racehorses, with a knack for telling it like it is. Her humor and no-nonsense opinions have landed her a regular column in the horse bible known as Chronicle of the Horse, as well as stints shooting photos of the best equine athletes competing at Rolex and beyond. In this week’s Clubhouse Q&A, Conrad discusses her work, and what she thinks of the growing popularity of ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds among horse buyers. Q: Allie, as the executive director of CANTER […]
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A Suffolk Downs ‘gem’ brings hope, a spark
Hillary Lak glanced indifferently at the mare. “She was cute, but she was too small,” Lak says, dismissively. With that quick summation and a shrug, Lak continued wending her way through the backside of Suffolk Downs last October, looking for a potential it horse to take her galloping across eventing fields yet to come. She looked and looked, but none caught her eye. And eventually, she felt like giving up. Her sister, however, along for the search, prodded her back toward the direction she’d come. “Just look at the mare again,” Lak was urged. Figuring that nobody else was jumping […]
