T-bred gets wildcard invite to US dressage finals
A Kentucky economics professor and the 17-hand Thoroughbred ex-racehorse she purchased four years ago as a green, fresh-off-the-track prospect, will compete tomorrow by wildcard invitation at the US Dressage Finals at the Kentucky Horse Park. Jill Stowe and her T-bred Dundee, who she adopted from New Vocations Racehorse Adoption, came in 8th out of 41 in the USDF Region 2 Championships in August, and their 66.7 score qualified them for the finals; quite a feat for a re-rider who hadn’t sat on a horse for two decades. Then she went out and purchased a Thoroughbred who was mere weeks off […]
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To a wasted t’bred comes everything good
Fine veterinary care, good food, and an embarrassment of choice blankets, all bought and paid for by donors, have helped turn around the life of a Thoroughbred who was destined for the grave four months ago. Jo Jo’s Gypsy was a “walking skeleton” in late August when Jeanne Mirabito of Our Mims Retirement Haven says she couldn’t sign the abandoned mare’s death warrant, and she took her in. Needing another horse like a hole in the head, Mirabito couldn’t turn her back on the incredibly sweet animal who loved people, and whose doe brown eyes melted her heart. And despite […]
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At 20, a t’bred full of surprises tackles gymkhana
Elevator Gail is a funny kind of horse. The hard-trying race mare earned her $115,740 in lifetime winnings the hard way, mostly in claimers, before moving on to become a broodmare with a big surprise under her belt. In 2006, after giving birth to her last foal, she was gamely learning a new hunter/jumper career when her new owners noticed something unusual. “She started to mysteriously gain weight,” says her current owner Jessica Bower of California, who has spent many hours blogging about her quirky mare. “Her owners at the time had gotten her after her last breeding didn’t take. […]
