Lucky horse arrives at time of misfortune
Whitney Mulqueen sat idly surfing the Internet one evening, more out of habit than with any great purpose in mind, flipping through horse advertisements with a glass of wine at her fingertips, when she suddenly felt a spark of electric hope that reminded her of better days. Though her bridles and saddles had long been sold off, and she had resolutely walked away from a 14-year professional horse career, the single mother who now struggled with finances and self-image, sat up a little straighter. What was this this horse doing here? With perfect conformation and the well-set head of a […]
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Eyeing the T-bred she heard ‘No!’— didn’t listen
Months after a horseback riding spill sent Sally Hamlin to the hospital via med flight, she stood in a field eyeing a 4-year-old T-bred that everyone said was “all wrong” for the timid, middle-aged rider. “When my riding coach and I went out to look at this beautiful gray racehorse, she said I was crazy to consider buying a 4-year-old Thoroughbred,” Hamlin recalls. “The whole time we were looking at him, she was muttering under her breath. She was so funny. She just kept saying, ‘No. No. No. No.’ ” Concerned though she was about getting another horse who might […]
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Camelot T-bred is muse for Miss CT contestant
As a large truck idled nearby like a predator lurking to take unwanted horses to slaughter, a young woman approached a skittish gray mare hiding in a paddock corner. Frightened and evasive, Perfect Love held her head down and kept her posture low until out of the corner of her good eye, she spotted an attractive young Connecticut woman approaching with a lead rope. Desperate to get the lovely gray ex-racehorse as far away from danger as she could, Acacia Courtney stepped boldly, but quietly toward the mare. And the animal turned to her new friend, allowing her to clip […]
