Blinded Everglades horse ribbons at HITS Ocala
Prodigioso, the burned and battered racehorse who was left to die on a desolate stretch of Florida Everglades, returned to the sunshine state this month to compete at the highly rated HITS Ocala series. Glossy and confident, Prodigioso carried owner and rider Robin Hannah into the ribbons in every under-saddle class, and also won ribbons in all but two over-fences classes, she reports. “He did extremely well, especially considering he was the greenest horse in the competition,” Hannah says. “People were amazed when I told them he’d just recently learned to do jumps, and here he was, at his first […]
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A Texas homebred lands with family in Ky
Finding family connections can bring the sweetest surprise. As Ann Banks learned one day while absently researching the pedigree of a nondescript T’bred, and suddenly coming face to face with her own storied past. There in the historic annals of the Dam’s side of Texas racehorse Absotively was Bank’s extended family of old-time horsemen, who helped establish great Thoroughbred bloodlines. “The whole female side of this horse’s family are horses bred by my extended family,” Banks says. “It’s just unbelievably cool!” Home-breds brought into this world by the family of Hal Price Headley, founder of Keeneland, and by his daughter […]
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CANTER-Texas now open for business
Laura Holmes, the mastermind behind the dynamic Facebook page OTTB Connect, officially launched the 12th chapter of CANTER (Communications Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses) this week in Texas. Citing the lack of a Thoroughbred sales listing service in that state, in which retiring ex-racehorses can be listed for sale, Holmes founded the new CANTER-Texas to serve racetracks in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, and will serve as executive director. “We have volunteers who will take regular listings from those tracks, so we can help people find their horse, or sell their horse,” says Holmes, who notes that the new service […]
