Bert thrives amid new faces, new places
Bert N’ The Group shed sickness so severe his veterinarian once doubted he would survive, and toughed out a long trailer rider from California to Texas, which in the end proved more of a magic carpet ride; it lifted him from darkness and illness to a place of sunshine, new horse friends, and blooming health. Since the first of the year, Bert has come full circle following a four-month battle with colic, colitis and other illness. To now see the mahogany coat on the gleaming gelding, an observer would be hard pressed to imagine him stripped of 200 pounds of […]
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Up, up and away goes her beautiful Helium Risin’
A professional therapist well used to grasping unspoken emotions, Kelsey Devoille sensed nothing but heart and desire as she closed her hands around the reins connecting her to Helium Risin’. Heading to the start box of a cross-country event, her friend’s off-track Thoroughbred left no doubt that he was a horse who had found his calling. “When he figures out that it’s cross-country day and we start to walk to the box, it’s a different ballgame,” Devoille says. “Coming out of the box, I never, ever, ever wonder whether he will purposely try to miss a jump or a line. […]
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Daily Racing Form lauded at Old Friends soirée
Old Friends Equine awarded the Bobby Frankel Award to the staff of the Daily Racing Form last week in recognition of the publication’s 90-page glossy tribute to the famous racehorses who now reside at the famous Kentucky retirement facility. Michael Blowen, president and co-founder of Old Friends Equine presented eight staff members of the racing industry publication with the award during a fundraising gala June 5 at Oheka Castle in New York. The award, named for the late New York-based Thoroughbred trainer Bobby Frankel is presented to people and organizations who best exemplify the Old Friends mission to help ex-racehorses […]
