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 […]
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Once destined for slaughter, Grace flourishes
What saved the delicate mare from the slaughterhouse 14 years ago was a combination of little things, really. First there was Kim Gatto’s ability to see past the Thoroughbred’s nicked, dull coat to envision her at her best; she saw a beauty beneath the shabby exterior of a horse who stood quietly with 30 others at the Pennsylvania auction house. “I could see that she was really pretty underneath,” Gatto recalls. “She was really petite and delicate.” And the next small thing— the money that would determine who purchased the horse—came down to the price of an inexpensive lunch. Ten […]
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Medaglia d’Oro son is 16th in US Dressage Finals
One of only two Thoroughbreds to compete in the US Dressage Finals at the Kentucky Horse Park last weekend, Dundee, the tall son of famous sire Medaglia d’Oro, stood proud among the Warmbloods. The ex-racehorse Thoroughbred and his owner/rider Jill Stowe finished 16th in their Level 2 class of 26 competitors. The amateur pair received a wildcard invitation to the show after they placed 8th out of 41 in the USDF Region 2 Championships in August. In that earlier show, they finished with a score of 66.7. On Friday, their score was 63.9. Dundee Sire: Medaglia d’Oro Dam: Krakowviak, by […]
