Photo of the Week: A southern gentleman
Summer Wessinger-Prehoda was always a big Warmblood fan until she met her OTTB, Western Diamond. Her first horse, she purchased the 2003 gelding by Western Boarders in 2012 and re-named him Southern Gentleman. After which, they worked through several training issues before she declared him to be her “diamond in the rough.” Though he has now been retired, due to a suspensory injury sustained at the track, he has a happy home with her. “I don’t think I will ever find a horse so sweet or lovely,” she says.
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After fall at The Fork, AP Prime cleared for Rolex
After taking a spill in the show-jumping portion of CIC three-star event at The Fork in their run up to a Rolex debut, Leah Lang-Gluscic and her $750 Thoroughbred AP Prime were cleared last Friday to compete. The good news came after six “sickening” days spent worrying after AP Prime stumbled in the footing between jumps 2 and 3 and fell in competition on April 1. He banged his front leg, causing a minor contusion, says Lang-Gluscic. AP passed flexion and palpation with flying colors however, and when an ultrasound confirmed what the veterinarian suspected—that he was as sound as ever—the […]
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Boy who saved horse with birthday cash is repaid
A 9-year-old Ontario boy, who pledged his birthday money to save a doomed Thoroughbred from slaughter, opened his mailbox this month to find that his selfless act had been repaid in full. A check in the amount of $650 was issued from fellow horseman and kindred spirit Don Martello of North Carolina, an animal lover deeply touched by young Brandon Heyman’s decision to give away his birthday cash earlier this year to rescue 17-year-old chestnut mare Karazan from the meat buyer. Brandon’s decision, and his mother MJ Allen’s subsequent choice to raise the funds to both save Karazan and give […]
