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 […]
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Soft-spoken grandma busts a myth on an OTTB
In her glory days, Arrington Walker worked among the stars of horse sport. An assistant competition manager for equestrian sport at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, she saw the very best athletes strive for the fabled five rings at the pinnacle of their careers. But now, at age 73, the soft-spoken South Carolina grandmother is doing something even more exciting. She is doing what those in the Thoroughbred world refer to as myth busting. To the amazement, and mild concern of friends, family and coaches, Walker bought herself an off-track Thoroughbred two years ago, practically pulled the old mare […]
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A silver lining emerges after failed Rolex bid
Five months after her big dream to ride Rolex was yanked out from under her, Leah Lang-Gluscic is slowly making a comeback, and working the magic once again to take a giant leap on her crazily talented $750 Thoroughbred. The one-time investment banker who ditched her day job in 2010 after discovering, quite by chance, the fiercely talented AP Prime on the backside of Fairmount Park, Illinois, gave up a shot at the cross-country run of her dreams, when just before the start, a medical concern arose. AP Prime Sire: A.P. Indy Dam: Czarina Kate Foal date: March 14, 2005After […]
