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 […]
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Jaguar Hope brings life-changing chain reaction
Jaguar Hope like a cinematic star when Wendy Wooley snapped his picture and later turned the image loose on the world. Regal, his black head held high, he sashayed around his new paddock with the flair of a leading man. And on a warm August day in 2007, when Wooley framed the charismatic Thoroughbred with her then-amateur photography skills, she unwittingly captured a fleeting moment that would lead to love, a new career and even influence in the movie War Horse. What started the “chain reaction” of change in her life began with that snapshot, which was taken the first […]
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T’bred with blown tendon is helped homeward
In a late afternoon race at Suffolk Downs last September, Noble’s Honor ruptured his left, front tendon in a scramble to the finish line, and wound up falling into the kind, caring hands of people who would help. He was taken back to his stall, bandaged up, attended to by a track veterinarian and offered for sale during CANTER New England’s Suffolk Showcase just one month later. And from his dinged-up stall with peeling green paint, he must have had the luck of the Irish when Taylor Belakonis and her sister Marina went to see him Oct. 14th. Looking beyond […]
