T-bred with blown tendon now Jumper champ
It’s been eight years since Money Makes Money was vanned off Gulfstream Park after blowing a tendon in a claiming race. And it’s been about seven since the balloon-shaped injury, which kept him stall-bound for nine months of healing, repaired itself to the point that it’s unnoticeable at the horse shows where he can’t stop winning. The animal who once seemed star crossed, now commands a Jumper show like he was born to a life of triumph and execution. His owner/rider Karen Benson never imagined the gelding nicknamed Mr. Kitster would be anything other than a re-sale project for her. […]
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Liberated from illegal butcher, a horse inspires
Tied to a tree in the Florida Everglades, the Thoroughbred with the fortuitous name Freedom’s Flight awaited his fate: death in an illegal slaughterhouse. He stood on a shattered leg that had snapped in April 2008 at a Gulfstream Park race, as his face swelled grotesquely and oozed mucus from Strangles, a contagious disease so severe he was nearly choking with it. Awaiting the thrust of a knife deep into his heart, like the horse in line just ahead, the great-great grandson of Secretariat was far from the eyes of the public, and adoring horse fans. He was in the […]
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3rd in Preakness, Icabad takes 1st as eventer
Icabad Crane, third-place finisher in the 2008 Preakness, continues to travel in world-class sporting company. The classy gelding belonging to Graham Motion, trainer of 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, and his wife Anita, is now training—and winning—under the gentle hands and expert prowess of Olympian Phillip Dutton. Last month, Dutton and Icabad grabbed first place at the Aiken’s Full Gallop Farm Horse Trials, finishing the Beginner Novice C Division with a score of 32.10. Though it’s too soon to say if Icabad has the right stuff to be a big horse in the Eventing world, the Motions spoke with […]
