Half-TB is amateur jumper reserve champ
A-Circuit equestrian Melissa Rudershausen, a well-known Thoroughbred advocate and head of DoubleRock Thoroughbred Rescue, clinched the reserve championship in the Jumper Amateur Owner National Championships last week aboard half-Thoroughbred mount, Gunner. Racing against the clock in jumper competitions that drew approximately 300 competitors to the January-to-November show season, the pair was “fast, very fast” across the jumps, excelling in jump-offs, and covering ground very well, says Rudershausen, noting that she credits her mount’s speed, agility and heart to his mother Usta Could’s Thoroughbred line. “His Mom only won $57 on the track, but she was a great broodmare who produced […]
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Big dreams, big winners converge at TB show
Show-jumping jockeys, famous Thoroughbred racehorses likeLava Man, and luminaries throughout the California race industry will join equestrians who compete Thoroughbred sport horses at a horse show next month. The Thoroughbred Holiday Classic Horse Show, the third in a series begun last year by Neigh Savers Foundation President Nicole Schwartz, will take place at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Dec. 14 and 15, and feature appearances by trainer Doug O’Neill, who has sponsored a jump in the show’s hunter/jumper ring, and trainer Carl O’Callaghan, who plans to ride his successful and recently retired Thoroughbred Kinsale King. The show, which is presented by […]
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A dangerous horse is tamed by love, pain lifts
Elusive Sky was a dangerous horse. Desperate to evade the touch of humans, the darkly brooding animal flinched away from the brush, pinned his ears if someone got too near, and even cow-kicked CANTER Mid Atlantic volunteer Jessica Morthole to the ground. But the impeccably bred 16.1 hand dark bay wasn’t a bad horse, Morthole says. He was a body sore horse. And that was the big difference. “When he arrived last spring (at my farm) for retraining, I realized immediately that though he was sound, he was super body sore to the point that you couldn’t even run a […]
