‘Boomerang horse’ finally finds a home
For the longest time, the full-bodied chestnut gelding with superstar looks couldn’t catch a break. Even on his first day of retirement from racing, the lovely animal was nearly killed in an automobile accident en route to CANTER Mid Atlantic, says executive director Allie Conrad. “We got him in 2006 or 2007 and on the way, his trailer got T-boned by an elderly gentleman,” she says. “The trailer and truck were totaled, and Bid was brought out through a side door for people. He was fine, a little banged up, and upset.” So with that as a start in his […]
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Camelot T-bred enchants Warmblood barn
Nearly three years ago dedicated Warmblood owner and dressage trainer Linda McDowell made a flying lead change of a different sort. “I decided to take a horse from Camelot,” she says. “At the time, I was leasing a 20-stall horse farm on the eastern shore of Maryland, and I decided I wanted to do a good deed and rescue a horse.” Going only from photographs she saw on social media page Camelot Horse Weekly, McDowell chose Valentina (JC: Julia S), a dainty dark bay who, when standing next to her Warmbloods at home, looked like a yearling. “I didn’t know […]
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Miss CT pledges to be ambassador for horses
Miss America hopeful Acacia Courtney pledges to bring horse-welfare awareness to a broader audience as she competes this September for the crown. Fresh off her win in the Miss Connecticut pageant June 14, in which she spoke passionately to judges about her work in horse rescue, and of her professional goals to cover horse racing as a broadcast journalist, Courtney described her desire to become an ambassador of the sport of racing, and of horse rescue. No stranger to the joys of a rescue horse, Courtney saved her dappled gray ex-racehorse Perfect Love from the Camelot Auction in 2011. (Please see […]
