Hell on the track, perfect on x-country
He was hell on the track, but devilishly good on the Eventing field last week. Fine with Me, an innocent-looking pretty gray once had quite the bag of tricks when stalled at the racetrack. “He used to stand up in his stall and try to climb over the walls,” says rider Lauren Lambert, who evented Fine with Me to clinch the 2014 USEF National One-Star Eventing Championship at the Hagyard Mid-South Eventing and Dressage Association (MSEDA) Three-Day Event and Team Challenge last weekend. In addition to the championship, the pair also took home the Jockey Club High Point Thoroughbred Incentive […]
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19-year-old T-bred is unlikely Eventing star
Valentine, a poorly put together 19-year-old Thoroughbred with knee chips and early stage navicular, is blowing the socks off the competition in Preliminary cross-country throughout the Area 3 Eventing world. The unlikely sport horse, who once won a race under Jockey Club name R Motel, by “running in terror from the other horses” is never so happy as when he is plunging into water, and soaring over obstacles with his owner Kayla August. “His thing is Cross Country. He falls asleep before dressage and showing jumping. But put him in a start box and he goes wild,” she says. “At […]
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California Chrome gear auctioned for T-breds
As Triple Crown hopeful California Chrome readies to run in the Breeders’ Cup, some of his treasured memorabilia has been donated to two Thoroughbred charities to be auctioned off for the benefit of Thoroughbreds in need. Alan Sherman, who is part of the father-son training team that helped usher California Chrome to wins in the 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, donated the coppery racehorse’s famously misspelled saddlecloth to Beyond the Roses, and to CANTER California, a leather halter worn by the famous horse. The gifts, says Sherman, were ones the great racehorse team was happy to make. “We are proud […]
