It’s big. It’s coming. Look out Kentucky!
The 3rd annual Thoroughbred Makeover & Symposium, which will usher in a tsunami of Thoroughbreds to the Kentucky Horse Park Oct. 23-25, is so big, so grand, that it’s almost an entirely different entity than the two Thoroughbred Makeover shows that preceded it, says its creator Steuart Pittman. “This show is practically brand new,” he says. “With the last two shows, we had to limit the numbers of participants, but we’ve always been really curious about the concept of letting in a lot of people. This meant we had to get out of the Pimlico Race Course venue, because it was […]
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Photo of the Week: 1-eyed OTTB gets an A+
Four Fs and a D, the last horse to find a home after Suffolk Downs closed last year, is gearing up to compete with Hilary Popiel at the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover in Kentucky this month. A brave chestnut who was passed over and passed over due to his missing left eye, the OTTB has proven to be as game as any horse she has ever trained, says Popiel. “He can have people passing him on one side, and opening umbrellas on the other side, and nothing bothers him,” she says. “He’s incredible!” Popiel says her decision to train Four […]
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Facebook friends send an OTTB to Burghley
Not born of silver spoons or anything easy, but with grit to soldier-on even after nearly losing her life in a rotational fall at Rolex 2008, an American rider and her OTTB went to Burghley last month to compete on the undulating fields of the manor born, with nothing more than bootstraps and help from her friends. Past castles reaching skyward with their weathered spires and over freshly cut lawns with the feel of manicured golf courses, rode four-star American Eventer Lainey Ashker on her 16-year-old off-Track Thoroughbred Anthony Patch; together they challenged in the crème de la crème of […]
