Sea Lord rules as racehorse dressage star
The harder the audience clapped, the higher he stepped. Lofting his exceptionally long legs so high that each step seemed more animated, more look at me, than the one before, he danced with all his heart to a movie soundtrack from Secretariat. And Sea Lord was great that day. Not as a racehorse, he never raced. But in the hands of top-level dressage rider Silva Martin he was a virtuoso in the dressage ring performing a Freestyle that displayed their talent and connection, while reminding everyone who watched that this was no Warmblood. This was an ex-racehorse Thoroughbred who became a Grand Prix dressage horse! Outfitted […]
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Jockeys star Bullybullybully auditions for new job
Bullybullybully, a racehorse who gained a minor celebrity following while starring in Animal Planet’s television series Jockeys, is auditioning for a new job, and a new life. In May, Bully’s career went flat. He finished dead last, coming in 40 lengths off the pace in a claimer at Mountaineer, says Diana Baker, a Thoroughbred advocate and board member of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. Fans, who had remembered the pretty chestnut from his glory days, began to speculate and worry about his fate, says Baker. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that the flashy gelding with the regal, white-star adorned […]
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Wounded kill-pen filly is adopted, safe now
In a fitting end to a storybook tale, a gray filly plucked from certain death in late November has been restored to health, and recently turned over to the loving protection of an equestrian who vows to love and care for her until the end of her days. Glenye, a dappled-gray Appendix cross who was bleeding from a head wound when Canadian horse activist Mindy Lovell spotted her, was adopted in March by Michelle Donovan, a woman described as the “perfect match” for an animal whose story had attracted many interested adopters. “I had quite a few people contact me […]
