Photo of the Week: Wagging tongues
Dawn Kirlin, owner of Harold’s Indy, explains how she came to own the character in this photo, who is prone to quacking and sticking out his tongue. Kirlin writes: “Back when my husband was still training steeplechase horses, we were always on the lookout for VA bred grass horses to claim and possibly run at Colonial Downs and at other venues where there were VA- bred incentives. “I was following another VA bred horse and came upon Harold’s Indy in the results and became intrigued. “He was born at a farm around the corner from us, Audley Farm, and had […]
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Flea-bitten gray ribbons against pros at HITS
A stately flea-bitten gray, with the classic Thoroughbreds looks often memorialized in oil paintings, stepped into the show ring at HITS-Ocala last week and was immediately pinned with ribbons. Passionate Groom, 17, took 6th and 8th in the Thoroughbred Over Fences class with 11-year-old rider Abigail Fox, who showed him for the first time, and against professionals, says her coach Robin Hannah-Carlton. Passionate Groom Barn name: River Sire: Groomstick Dam: Passionate Terry Foal date: March 10, 1998“That was a really good result because many of the riders were professionals, and it was Abigail’s first time showing him,” Hannah-Carlton says, noting that […]
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Girl gets broodmare out of kill pen; ‘I promised’
A lumpy-legged Thoroughbred broodmare escaped death in a Canadian slaughterhouse last summer after a young girl, who had befriended the animal in her last hours, pleaded with adults to spare her. The deal had already been made; the old mare dubbed “Ruby” was set to ship to a Canadian slaughterhouse when the last human to touch the mare’s soft black-and-tan muzzle turned out to hold all the cards in the fate of this one horse. “I call my daughter Emma my tiny, little horse whisperer,” says longtime horseman and rescue volunteer Kay O’Hanlon Myruski of Goshen, N.Y. “She’d honed in […]
