Eyeing the T-bred she heard ‘No!’— didn’t listen
Months after a horseback riding spill sent Sally Hamlin to the hospital via med flight, she stood in a field eyeing a 4-year-old T-bred that everyone said was “all wrong” for the timid, middle-aged rider. “When my riding coach and I went out to look at this beautiful gray racehorse, she said I was crazy to consider buying a 4-year-old Thoroughbred,” Hamlin recalls. “The whole time we were looking at him, she was muttering under her breath. She was so funny. She just kept saying, ‘No. No. No. No.’ ” Concerned though she was about getting another horse who might […]
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Camelot T-bred is muse for Miss CT contestant
As a large truck idled nearby like a predator lurking to take unwanted horses to slaughter, a young woman approached a skittish gray mare hiding in a paddock corner. Frightened and evasive, Perfect Love held her head down and kept her posture low until out of the corner of her good eye, she spotted an attractive young Connecticut woman approaching with a lead rope. Desperate to get the lovely gray ex-racehorse as far away from danger as she could, Acacia Courtney stepped boldly, but quietly toward the mare. And the animal turned to her new friend, allowing her to clip […]
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TRF marks 30 years pairing inmates with T-breds
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation celebrates the 30th anniversary of its hallmark Second Chances program next week at the Wallkill Correctional Facility in New York. On these grounds where the first of nine programs pairing prisoners with retired ex-racehorses for a transformative experience, a celebration will kick off at 11 a.m., June 19. The festivities will include a tour of the Wallkill Correctional Facility’s farm, where legendary ex-racehorse Quick Call, 30, happily roams in tranquility after a stellar racing career. Quick Call raced 89 times for Hall of Fame trainer Sid Walters and earned more than $800,000. But it’s in his […]
