Inmates ace horsemanship class with OTTBs
Four inmates who grew up thinking they were no good at school, and who certainly never imagined gaining the trust of thousand-pound Thoroughbred racehorses, graduated last month from a horsemanship program, opening a door to a new world. With a collective score so high, the group earned a spot as one of the highest-scoring classes to ever graduate the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Second Chances program at James River, according to Dr. Reid McLellan, founding program developer. After six months of studying horsemanship from nose to tail, and learning to be both herd leader and horse whisperer, each graduated the James River Second […]
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Blind rider and a T’bred, 26, are champs
He stood tall and shiny in an Oregon field, a Thoroughbred so handsome he looked far younger than his 26 years. Last summer, as the sun glinted off his well-muscled body, Rio turned his finely sculpted head to watch a young woman approach. He could see her thin form, her long hair. But she could not see him. He appeared as a blurry brown object in the fog to Wren Zimmerman, a 25-year-old who has been legally blind since her senior year in high school. Walking alongside Vicki Zacharias, a horse trainer who owned the spectacular gelding, a new chapter […]
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$750 T’bred romps Red Hills, primed for Rolex
A $750 off-track Thoroughbred continued his powerful run toward Rolex last weekend by taking 3rd at the challenging Red Hills International Horse Trials. AP Prime, a grandson of the great A.P. Indy, turned it on for his owner/rider Leah Lang-Gluscic in all three phases of the event, beating his personal best in both dressage and show jumping. In dressage, his weakest phase, AP finished in the mid 30s, putting him mid-pack on the leaderboard, rather than his standard back-of-the-pack; he had a powerful start to cross-country day. Without even trying, AP finished the very challenging CIC*** course with the second best time, […]
