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 […]
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An old lesson horse, not forgotten, gets his due
After a decade spent obliging a blur of riders who honed their equestrian skills on him, a 23-year-old T’bred was placed for sale on Craigslist, and soon had one of his old friends come calling. In a story that might not have ended so well for Moccasin Dancer, a quick glance at Craigslist, and a mother’s recognition of the photo backdrop, the place where her daughter took lessons, brought a very happy conclusion to the old geldings long lesson career. “I asked my daughter Cassandra if the horse I’d spotted on Craigslist looked familiar and she yelled, ‘That’s Simon!’ And I […]
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New Year’s horse makes magic after Beulah
Kayla August’s New Year started off with a gamble on a T-bred. She called her Resolution. Plunking down $300 at Beulah Park in Ohio after driving 12 straight hours New Year’s Eve, August loaded up the red mare she had spotted in a Facebook advertisement, and returned to Aiken, S.C. that same night, pushing through until New Year’s Day. “It was a huge gamble!” August admits. “I didn’t know if she was going to be a nut-job or if she could even do what I had in mind. But there was just something about her in that photo. I thought she […]
