Prejudice led to great T’bred line
BY DENNY EMERSON — If you ride a thoroughbred in 2015, anywhere on planet earth, you do so because back in 1934 an Englishman had a prejudiced attitude toward Italians. WHAT? Yup. In 1934, an Italian horseman named Federico Tesio had a mare, Nogara, that he wanted to breed to Lord Derby’s champion race horse, Fairway. But Lord Derby’s stud manager, the person responsible for accepting mares into Fairway’s book, was prejudiced against Italians, and refused Tesio’s request. So Tesio bred Nogara to Pharos, the full brother of Fairway. The resulting foal was Nearco, a great champion on the racetrack, […]
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A ‘miracle’ he got out of Bastrop, La. kill pen
A ratty chestnut gelding who by a stroke of luck was able to catch a ride out of the Bastrop kill pen in Louisiana, and be spared the slaughterhouse, is expected to make a grand appearance at a Kentucky horse show next month. A Miracle’s On, a 3-year-old gelding rescued by MidAtlantic Horse Rescue earlier this summer has been entered to compete at the Kentucky Horse Park as part of the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover show, says Bev Strauss, president of the horse rescue. A Miracle’s On Barn name: Mo Sire: In a Walk Dam: My Foriels On Foal […]
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Photo of the Week: A bug’s tale
I’malightningbug has been lighting up life for the Driscoll family of Goffstown, N.H. since the bay grandson of Belmont Stakes winner Touch Gold arrived in January 2012. The adorable T’bred now nicknamed, Bug, traveled to the Granite State to serve as a companion horse to the family’s beloved 23-year-old horse Alomar, but soon showed he was really much more of a “people” horse. “I have to say that I have not met a horse like Bug. Having grown up with horses, I’ve been exposed to different personalities, but none quite like him,” says Elise Driscoll. “He gets excited when he sees […]
