Pair of abandoned T-breds on the mend
Two ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds left to die— one in a remote region of Florida, the other in a woodsy lot of Bourbon County Kentucky—are continuing to recover from the hard lot in life they were dealt. Gray gelding Sosa, 22, is healing nicely from infected, deep wounds of his legs, according to Laurie Waggoner, South Florida SPCA director of operations, who notes that the wounds are responding very well to medically treated leg wraps. “We expect the leg wraps to be part of his treatment regimen for another six to eight weeks,” she says, adding that the wounds are no longer […]
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A filly named for grandpa saved from meat buyer
“Gramps, don’t tell anyone,” said Jane Allen Blayman to Bert Allen on a late December day in 2009. “But, I’m on my way to Hagerstown to get this horse. People are worried.” As she raced to rescue a weanling, sight unseen, the fourth-generation horseman and her grandfather “rattled awhile” —an expression he used to describe their lengthy phone conversations—about a horse who would subsequently be saved and named in tribute to the dear old man and the good horsemanship he espoused. The weanling grew to neither big nor gorgeous by racehorse standards, Blayman says. But she was special. She was […]
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Mystery T-bred gets Devon handy hunter prize
Atop her tattooed Thoroughbred of mysterious pedigree, 15-year-old Kaitlyn Brennan clinched the Handy Hunter Stake at Devon this June, besting 28 other horse/rider teams for the honor. Riding her T-bred Knoddingham Bay in 95-degree heat, the pair was 15th to take a go at the course, and soon after exiting the ring, with 13 teams remaining, Brennan realized the stars were aligning in her favor. “When they announced the standby list over the loudspeaker, and our names were at the top of it, I couldn’t believe it,” she says. “I’m very superstitious and I didn’t want to keep looking at the […]
