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Future Kings ribbons at his first show, months after being plucked from the slaughter pipeline.

Photo of the Week: Future Kings gets ribbons

Future Kings, an Irish bred gelding who sold for $200,000 in his prime, but who landed in the slaughter pipeline at age 15, ribboned at his first horse show last month. Ridden by Grace Clairmont at the Thoroughly Thoroughbred Horse Shows May 31, the beautiful bay won two jumps pleasure classes, reports his proud new owner, Marilyn Lee of Sherwood Farms, Ontario. No stranger to the joys of OTTBs, Sherwood is the owner of Prodigioso the Everglades Horse, a Thoroughbred dumped in the Everglades of Florida and left to the fates. (Please see Prodigioso’s story here). Buoyed by the success […]