Rescued Minn. HOTY ships to forever home
Tubby Time, the 2011 Canterbury Park Horse of the Year who was seized from a Pennsylvania kill lot in early May, traveled over the weekend to his new forever home in Ocala, Fla. With more flesh on the bone and in overall better health than the day he was plucked from a destined death in a slaughterhouse, Tubby was carefully loaded onto a trailer in Michigan and shipped southward with Vicki Henderson of Double HH Ranch Transport. Along the way, as the pair stopped at layover barns where Tubby unloaded, relaxed, and stretched his legs, Henderson posted photos of the […]
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Remembering C.L. Rib and his ‘monster moves’
“Don’t you worry,” the trainer said to the jockey. “He’s going to come from 35 lengths out of it, and he’ll be so far behind, but don’t give up. “He’ll start running at the top of the stretch — and he’ll come flying.” For nine years, stakes placed Ohio-bred C.L. Rib, or Ribby to his friends, put in performances on the track that brought fans to their feet and had announcers declaring, “Here comes C.L. Rib with a monster move!” He was the type of racehorse you not only wouldn’t forget, but he is still very much the topic of […]
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Sea Lord rules as racehorse dressage star
The harder the audience clapped, the higher he stepped. Lofting his exceptionally long legs so high that each step seemed more animated, more look at me, than the one before, he danced with all his heart to a movie soundtrack from Secretariat. And Sea Lord was great that day. Not as a racehorse, he never raced. But in the hands of top-level dressage rider Silva Martin he was a virtuoso in the dressage ring performing a Freestyle that displayed their talent and connection, while reminding everyone who watched that this was no Warmblood. This was an ex-racehorse Thoroughbred who became a Grand Prix dressage horse! Outfitted […]
