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Shoeshopper, who shows under the name I'm Fancy, Huh?, showed no interest in racing. She was sold to a professional barn to train as a hunter/jumper instead.

Shoeshopper’s fancy feet not meant for the track

It was pretty clear from the get-go that the filly Shoeshopper was more interested in “trotting around” than running a race. So her race owner didn’t even try. Instead of forcing the light bay with strikingly pretty face into doing something she really didn’t like, her owner Susan Kayne sold her to Rehoboth, Mass. equestrian Lindsey Canesi. And her new owner handed her a plumb of an assignment. “For the first year I used her in lead-line classes for youngsters. She was perfect with them. Here she is, this 16.1 hand horse and she was taking around an 8-year-old little […]