TB champ sells for Warmblood price, so talented
A red OTTB mare once so wild she needed additional head restraints as she walked alongside a burly handler who muscled control over the kicking mare, has since become a champion show horse so successful on the west coast that she quickly sold in September for the price of a Warmblood! Holiday Cat, the pedigreed and talented Thoroughbred sport horse, and a force to be reckoned with on the West Coast Zone 9 show circuit, was sold in September by owners Jorji McEllrath and her equestrian daughter Brayle for $22,500, a sum commonly fetched by Warmbloods. “I see so many […]
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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 […]
