Clubhouse Q&A: Catching up with Circuitous
Associates at New York-based Mosaic Racing Stable agreed long ago that if the horses who ran for them were not well taken care of, they would have no part of the racing business. “The agreement,” explained managing partner Monica Driver in a March interview with OffTrackThoroughbreds.com, “is that the horse will always come first. We will make sure we take care of our horses.” Horses are cross-trained in second disciplines and hacked on trail rides to keep them happy, in preparation for their next-careers, after their racing days end. And at the slightest hint of an injury, as was the […]
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Workmanlike ex-racehorse sweeps Rolex!
For anyone who has ever been told they need a better horse to get the higher scores, Allie Conrad has a two-word answer: Parklane Hawk. And to those who believe that the best dressage tests can only executed by Warmbloods with freakish, floating work across the center line, or that the highest reaches of equestrian competition are reserved for super fancy movers, her answer again, said with a knowing smile: Parklane Hawk. Over the weekend, the “workmanlike” New Zealand racehorse who knocked around the track until he was seven, hit one out of the horse park at Rolex Kentucky Three […]
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Just imagine,Thoroughbreds for all!
Could the off-track Thoroughbred be the new “it” horse? The “new black” as Allie Conrad, the executive director of CANTER Mid Atlantic, postulates on her Facebook page, before she rushes off to watch 21 resplendent ex-racehorses compete in the Rolex Kentucky Three Day. In the opinion of Steuart Pittman, creator of the Retired Racehorse Training Project, the answer is yes: The once dominant Sporthorse, which in recent years played second fiddle to the Warmblood in the show world, is becoming fashionable once more. “More and more people are starting to recognize that Thoroughbreds are one of the coolest choices” in […]
