She traded Warmblood for T-bred, instant karma
After agreeing to jump an out-of-shape Thoroughbred over fences for a sales video, a diehard Warmblood owner who’d previously sworn up and down she’d never own a Thoroughbred felt the tables turn in a flash of instant T-Bred karma. Suddenly Jennifer Carney knew, as the coppery horse carried her higher and higher over jumps larger and larger, that the beautiful horse she rode more naturally than her own was the one for her. “After we finished making the video I was sitting in the saddle and I joked, ‘Do you want to trade?’ And a couple days later my trainer […]
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Ga. lady flies to Boston, takes 5 Suffolk T-breds
Certain that her Georgia riding academy didn’t need more horses, yet equally certain the T-breds on the backside of Suffolk Downs racetrack needed her, Beverly Bochetto of Blue Skies Riding Academy rocketed off to the defunct racetrack two weeks ago and took home five Thoroughbreds. As though conducting a tactical military maneuver, Beverly Bochetto and her barn manager A.J. Martin flew to Logan Airport on a Tuesday, and went straight to the backside. Working their cell phones like operatives, they connected with longtime Thoroughbred advocate and trainer Lorita Lindemann, who worked as a liaison between Bochetto and backside personnel. Not […]
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T-bred nails 4th Level Dressage at Devon
A Thoroughbred who once moved so oddly that his trot had the jerky up-down motion of a sewing needle, held his own against many naturally gifted sport horses last weekend, placing at the top of his 4th Level Dressage test at the fabled Devon Horse Show. Kaytee Mountain and his owner/rider Sue Gallagher cinched third place Sept. 27 in a field of 15 horse/rider teams, none of them Thoroughbreds, most of them professional. Following a classically poor dress rehearsal—they got lost en route to the show grounds, and performed a harried practice session in a driving rain the night before— the […]
