Once-injured TB makes comeback at Pa. Nat’l
A 5-year-old OTTB who bowed a tendon early in his race career won the Equine Comeback Challenge at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show last month, his winning performance attracting a new owner in one fell swoop. After just 90 days of training in an array of disciplines, including trail, team penning, jumps, barrel patterns and reining, Indian Rain Dance performed the winning flatwork pattern and Freestyle at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show Oct. 13. “I knew off-the-bat when I first saw him that he would be a great horse,” says longtime horseman and trainer Kelsey Parisi. “The first time I […]
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Photo of the Week: Haunted by a spooky TB
Hugh Francis and his dark bay OTTB Piper Heidsieck often haunt the Old Dutch Church Cemetery in Westchester, N.Y. this time of the year. Francis, a retired mounted police officer, enjoys donning the Headless Horseman costume to help celebrate the holiday. He tapped Piper for the very special role of ‘spooky black horse’ a few years back, after a friend gave up on him. He was just too hard to handle. But in Francis’s hands, the gelding proved to be no spook at all. In fact, says Francis, “There’s nothing wrong with the horse at all. He’s just a high-powered Thoroughbred.” Piper’s […]
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Makeover winner: ‘Any horse can do this’
Lindsey Partridge and her Thoroughbreds were said to be “the train nobody saw coming.” After winning the highest honors at the TCA Thoroughbred Makeover in Kentucky this past weekend, the Ontario nurse and her two spontaneously purchased OTTBs— Soar and Lionofwallstreet—returned to Canada after a weekend spent wowing Thoroughbred fans with Freestyle routines that helped proved that an off-track Thoroughbred can do just about anything. Her gray mare Soar, who she renamed Kahleesi, was named America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred, after putting in a routine that included a demonstration of bridleless riding and a range of gaits and skills. Soar New […]
