Derby hat fashion is bold, cheery
It’s all about wide brims, fanciful top hats and bold, bright colors at this year’s Kentucky Derby hat-fashion scene. Going by the most popular styles and requests of her clients, Cape Cod milliner Sally Faith Steinmann says the Derby-goers she is outfitting are craving color and fun. “This year I’m seeing a real playfulness in what people are requesting,” says the owner of custom couture millinery, Maggie Mae Designs. “The brims are very wide, and we’re seeing a lot of hot pinks, oranges and fuchsia—we’re even putting all those colors together in one hat!” Faith-Steinman surmises that the tough economy […]
Soledad O’Brien buys 2nd Akindale OTTB
A delicate gray mare and handsome bay gelding from Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue have made Soledad O’Brien a true believer in the value of ex-racehorses for equestrians of all levels “If anybody had said to me a year ago that my 10-year-old daughter, who’s 4-foot 10, would be on a Thoroughbred right off the track, and that she’d be training him to jump cross-rails, I wouldn’t have believed them,” O’Brien says in a phone interview with Off Track Thoroughbreds.com. She adds, “It’s amazing to me that horses like mine could be slaughtered. Horses that are really a throw-away for some people […]
Blitzemupthemiddle is afire as barrel racer
Morgan Stumpf’s other horse was supposed to be the barrel racer. Bred “to the hilt” and sporting the “pretty-pretty” Quarter Horse look so favored in the sport, on paper at least, he seemed destined for greatness. So day after day, Stumpf trained him hard and did her best to coax the flashy Quarter Horse to bend and curl around those barrels. Month after month she urged him to tuck his feet up underneath, and move with precision, always optimistic that this guy would find his stride and fulfill the promise of his pedigree. But in the end, she had to admit […]