Photo of the Week: King of his domain
Four years ago, Sandy and Bruce Carr “fled the rains” of Seattle, and the pressures of dual law enforcement careers, to retire on a small, sun-drenched ranch in New Mexico. And shortly thereafter, another retiree completed the picture. Isa My Love, nicknamed Easy, had been retired to Texas horse charity LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers (LOPE) with small bone chips in his legs when the Carr family happened upon him while on holiday. While visiting their daughter in Austin, Sandy Carr decided to plug in the phrase “off-track Thoroughbred” into an online search, and up popped the charity, and her future […]
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80+ horses rescued from Va. death farm
At first there was only darkness and the putrid stench of death. Then the flashlights were switched on and narrow beams of light revealed the dead, near-dead and terrified horses of Peaceable Farms, in a scene described in media reports as “the most horrendous” scene of animal abuse. “We’d shine a flashlight in a stall and there’d be walking skeletons staring back,” says Miah Proulx of Hope’s Legacy Equine Rescue. “There was one horse” who was terrified “and he was lunging over the stall walls trying to bite people as we walked horses onto a big, open-air stock trailer. “But […]
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An OTTB who trots 1.30m fences, and wins big
On the track, Filibustered had a reputation for getting into so much mischief that by the time he left racing he’d earned the nickname “Busted.” He’d been caught so often doing things a well-mannered racehorse just shouldn’t be doing. Though stories of his racetrack antics were forgotten, his unusual shenanigans continued to create a buzz and backstory about a horse who raised a few eyebrows on his way to becoming a show jumping star who did things “his way.” Like the time he became annoyed with something only he could fathom, then pulled to a stop and proceeded to lie […]
