Money Makes Money repays a kindness
Tucking the prayer card from her father’s funeral service into her saddle, Karen Benson and her Thoroughbred Money Makes Money, once vanned off a southern Florida racetrack, stood ready at the big Virginia Thoroughbred horse show last month. They had “wings.” When March 17 dawned at the Thoroughbred Celebration Horse Show, Benson and her versatile bay gelding, who she now calls Kit, were unbeatable. “He was nothing short of a superstar,” she says. “It was indoors, under bright lights and other horses were spooking.” But not Kit. A once-injured racehorse, he jumped clean on all his rounds, and netted five […]
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Q&A: John Murrell campaigns against slaughter
Texas oilman and racehorse owner John R. Murrell is busier than a one-armed paperhanger these days. But it isn’t spreadsheets keeping him up to all hours, making calls, and writing impassioned letters. Those in the horse world know Murrell as an increasingly active voice for horse welfare. He is often a lifeline to horse-rescue nonprofits who need cash to buy horses from auctions that sell to meat buyers, and he has recently been making news with a letter-writing campaign to try to stop the return of horse-slaughter plants to American soil. Murrell recently wrote to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, to […]
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A debilitating brain condition can’t stop her
At 23 Alicia Daugherty was unstoppable. A talented athlete, she played soccer obsessively, dreaming of turning pro. And her idea of cycling, another passion, was to hop on her bike in the morning and ride to the point of exhaustion. On May 22, 2011 at 12:53 p.m., Daugherty was beginning a 70-mile ride, in preparation for the 127-mile Pedal to the Point charity race in Ohio, when a hit-and-run driver ran a red light, and obliterated the young athlete’s dreams, but never her spirit. For 10 months, Daugherty battled fainting spells, dizziness, migraines and a long list of other symptoms […]
