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Jebster used to race one week and pony the next. Now he has a permanent home with exercise rider April Le Blanc and is a lesson horse for adoring youngsters.

He ponied one week, raced the next; many hats

Jebster was never much more than mediocre on the racetrack. He won three 1sts and hit the board often enough to earn $72,000. But neither his record nor his looks — cute but by no means flashy —distinguished him from the sea of bay brown racehorses. What Jebster had was a workmanlike ability to wear many hats, functioning at times as a racehorse, and in his off- weeks, as a pony, before eventually moving into a third and fourth career in hunter/jumpers and barrels in Canada. “Jeb quickly became a barn favorite,” says his owner April Le Blanc, a Woodbine […]