Four X The Trouble was worth the fuss
Robin Coblyn went to a lot of trouble for the fuzzy, bay colt with white socks. Even before he was born, she took great pains finding the perfect winning racehorse to sire the little guy, ultimately choosing Domestic Dispute, who, in his heyday, won over $700,000 and fathered some pretty fancy offspring. “There was a time when Domestic Dispute babies were selling for $150,000 and up,” Coblyn recalls. But, as luck would have it, the foals had dropped off the bloodstock radar shortly after her little guy was born. Worse, the vagaries of life would compound early on for this […]
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Calif. officer finds calling, saves OTTBs
In one of those ironic twists of fate, it was a layoff from her beloved job on the Sacramento, Calif. police force that led Alana Courville to discover her true “calling”— finding new paths and careers for ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds. Up until receiving her pink slip last June, Courville had kept her enthusiasm for horses as a sideline, and worked with gusto on community policing work and other projects for the force. But when her career ended abruptly in a widespread layoff, if wasn’t the allure of fighting crime that fueled her imagination, but rather, it was a scraggly racehorse with […]
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Clubhouse: Priscilla Godsoe’s life in the saddle
Priscilla Godsoe lives her life according to Winston Churchill’s famous quote that no time is wasted in the saddle. So, up at dawn and back home after dark, Godsoe’s life is wrapped up in horses Whether foxhunting or race training, the show jumping equestrian from the mid-Atlantic runs her life as if on Greenwich Mean Time. In this week’s installment of Reader’s Clubhouse, walks us through a typical day. Q: Your work is done from a saddle, either at foxhunts, racetracks or in a show arena. Please describe your job. Fox hunting – My job is as a ‘whipper-in’ for […]
