Photo of the Week: Sir Prize Birthday wise, happy
Sir Prize Birthday, 35, the oldest retired racehorse in the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s (TRF) herd of 900, has rallied after a rough winter. After enduring the harsh, cold, snowy winter and battling a mild bout of colic, the elder statesmen has had a “real good summer,” says Jim Tremper, program manager at the TRF’s Walkill, N.Y., facility. “He had a pretty rough winter, and I wasn’t sure he was going to make it,” Tremper says. “But then he just blossomed.” Birthday has become like Buddha on the upstate New York property of the Walkill Correctional Facility. Grown wise, thin and […]
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Nuno Santos: Thoroughbreds are back in vogue
To those who might denigrate the Thoroughbred’s capacity to compete in the dressage world—oh, they’re just not born for it; not “uphill” enough— exercise rider turned OTTB trainer Nuno Santos has a horse to tell you about. Actually, make that two. A dressage rider who helped transform a nervous, somewhat flighty Thoroughbred named Ken’s Kitten into a third-level mount capable of incredible movement and scope, can hardly conceal his glee today as he speaks of Kitten’s burgeoning four-star achievements. Ken’s Kitten Sire: Kitten’s Joy Dam: Cruise Line Foal date: April 11, 2007 ** Rapsandtaps Sire: Tapit Dam: Redness, by Tale […]
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The story of Our Mims hits the silver screen
When Jeanne Mirabito was a teenager, she placed a “cosmic claim” on 1977 Eclipse Award Champion 3-year-old filly Our Mims, a beautiful racehorse who danced across the teen’s television screen. With innocent confidence, she declared, “One day I’m going to own her!” And 21 years later, that’s pretty much what happened. After marriage and relocation had taken her to Kentucky, Mirabito got a job on a horse farm, which was eerily just a few pastures away from where the older, very difficult mare spent some very unglamorous retirement years sharing a pasture with cows. One day, while walking out to […]
