Camelot T-bred is muse for Miss Connecticut
Acacia Courtney was crowned Miss Connecticut last weekend! Inspired in life by her Thoroughbred, Acacia discussed her rescue work in the interview portion of the contest. In honor of her victory, we are repeating an earlier story on Acacia. And we’ll be talking with her soon for a followup story! *** 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 […]
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In Hawaii a hot T-bred is now a cool sport horse
After three years of persistence, a 15-year-old Honolulu equestrian and her spirited Illinois-bred Thoroughbred have proved the skeptics wrong. People who used to wonder if Jenna Neher wasn’t a bit “over horsed” by her off-track Thoroughbred African Wildfire, are now commenting on how “good” the plain bay is for his young rider as the two compete at the USDF’s second level and jump three-foot courses. “At first he was a hot Thoroughbred, and a lot of people thought he was a lot of horse for me,” Neher says. “But we’ve come such a long way since I got him in […]
