Horses teach corporate workers to lead, solve
Fresh from a natural horsemanship class with her ex-racehorse, Tracey Evans cast her eyes upon the “good, the bad and the ugly” of the leadership and teamwork taking place in her corporate finance position, and she got an idea. What if instead of PowerPoint presentations in a room blinded by florescent lighting, leadership techniques could be taught in the fresh air of the great outdoors, where, rather than learning leadership principles from by-the-book jargon and hackneyed catchphrases, it could be acquired by working out real world problems, and with the instincts of a horse. Forget words like “metrics” and “ownership” […]
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Anthony Patch leads the OTTB Revolution!
Oh what Laine Ashker and her sweet gentleman Thoroughbred Anthony Patch have done for the competitive Thoroughbred sport horse! Last weekend, in a 50-horse division at the Millbrook Horse Trials, the hard-knocking pair, who toughed out setbacks at past Rolex competitions, cinched first place against some of the top horse & rider teams. In a Q&A interview this week, Ashker, of Laine Ashker Eventing, answers questions about her fantastic weekend, and offers her thoughts on how the success that is theirs now further helps to elevate the reputation of all Thoroughbred sport horses. Q: You said in an Eventing Nation article […]
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Sad and lovely journey made better by an OTTB
Surrounded by a breathtaking expanse of the Rocky Mountains, and all that beautiful sky, three women, once strangers, now fast friends, drew together one last time to revel in the life of the Thoroughbred they all loved. As the strapping bay ex-racehorse made them forget for a moment that one of them was very sick, and instead focused them on his joyous romp across the show grounds he dominated, their last moments together let them glimpse, if only briefly, what it felt like to grasp and hold on to childlike hope. “It was a weekend that was both sad and […]
