Davy Jones’s love of TBs helps one special guy
In the final chapter of his celebrity life, Davy Jones of The Monkees spent many years helping Thoroughbreds who rarely saw a glimmer of the limelight he knew so well. Plain bay Kentucky bred Uncle Bill was one such Thoroughbred. All but forgotten after 68 starts in the dogfights of Florida tracks and beyond, people drove by Bill’s field time after time without ever noticing the old warhorse. But the pop idol noticed. “David found Uncle Bill when he was six or seven years old. He was in an Indiantown pasture, and he used to drive by everyday,” says Marion […]
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A flashy TB changes a corporate CEO’s life
As the CEO of a leading engineering firm, David Osage is highly skilled at navigating tight spots. But none so tricky as the one faced by the 60-year-old while negotiating a turn on his flame-haired Thoroughbred, Natasha. As the novice student was trotting 10-meter circles while posting without stirrups, he started to slide out of the saddle, in the direction of dirt. And Natasha, a rescue horse who was nobody’s idea of a lesson horse for a beginner, and who had her own emotional baggage since her rescue the year before, had two choices: spook and buck, or calmly slow […]
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Thoroughbreds strut their stuff at Equine Affaire
Nine Thoroughbred ex-racehorses from several re-homing organizations strutted their stuff at the annual Equine Affaire in West Springfield, Mass., last weekend. Horses training in a variety of disciplines performed as a group, in the walk, trot and canter, in a demonstration that was jointly organized by Fiona Farrell, Esq. of Thoroughbred Renaissance, LLC. and Massachusetts rider and Thoroughbred owner Monica Southwick. Despite good-sized crowds and the big atmosphere of the robust equine trade show, the Thoroughbreds remained pretty cool under pressure, says Southwick, who rode her two ex-racehorses in the demonstration. The young Massachusetts equestrian began by riding Willie Cruise […]
