Country Side, oldest Secretariat stallion, dies
Country Side, the oldest living Secretariat stallion, died peacefully at Diamond J. Farms in Texas at the end of summer, leaving many good-brained, big-strided offspring to continue the famous line in Thoroughbreds and in Quarter Horses. And an owner/caretaker who says she never met a horse like her polite, funny stallion. “Country Side wasn’t one of those stallions walking in on his hind legs. He was a gentleman to work with and he was such a lover” with the mares and fillies, says owner Joycelyn Kasmir. “We had a teaser stall next to his and when he’d first a mare, […]
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Swiftly, wildly fun; and then he was gone
He came flashing into their lives, a “crazy, crazy thing” and made them better horsemen. Then he was gone. After three years with the Sherwood Farm family of riders in Canada, Inside Trading left proprietor Marilyn Lee, her daughter Robin Hannah, and two dedicated students who learned much from the bright bay T-bred everybody expected to “go big.” Instead, his flame was extinguished without warning on Oct. 20. After he became suddenly sick with colic, the animal was rushed to the hospital and surgery was begun to correct a twisted gut, but to no avail. Nicknamed Woody for a family […]
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A lovely, injured filly finds home that accepts her
Broken but beautiful, 3-year-old blue roan filly Birdsofafeather found a family who loved her just the way she was. When Kari Ryan and her daughter Alana saw the strikingly pretty filly, standing in a field at Old Friend’s former Claremont, N.Y. facility, they started walking toward the delicate animal as if drawn by a magnetic force. “My daughter and I were looking at two geldings to adopt and I happened to look up and saw Birdsofafeather standing in the distance. I was like, who is that?” Ryan says. “We walked toward her and she walked right up to us like it […]
