Camelot pauper is show-ring prince
A dusty Camelot castaway, plucked by chance from an auction that could have catapulted him to the slaughterhouse, is now on the cusp of a first-class hunter/jumper career. Atom, an un-raced bay Thoroughbred, has emerged from his shell under the training of Mooresville, N.C. trainer Karen Benson to take high ribbons in big classes at the Totally Thoroughbred Show at Pimlico, clearing jump after jump with the high-knee tuck of the refined show horse he was born to be. “He has an amazing natural talent,” says Benson, who helped save him from the Camelot auction in 2012. “He’s so good […]
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Photo of the Week: Rahy’s spirit runs deep
Laurie Tuozzolo adopted Rahy’s son, Kim’s Rahy off the track from Suffolk Downs in 2000 at 65 starts. And shortly after, she has been hopping bareback on her 21-year-old gelding and riding him to the Oak Swamp in Rhode Island to take a swim. (Please see earlier story on the pair:http://offtrackthoroughbreds.com/2011/09/22/swimming-with-a-thoroughbred-recaptures-joy/). The hot summers spent enjoying the feel of cool water slushing past their legs took Tuozzolo back to her childhood, and help push the pressures of life aside. For her special horse, she wrote this poem: “When I See My Horse “The long hard day becomes easy, The pressure […]
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These racehorses were ‘meant to disappear’
Nine young racehorses who were reportedly “meant to disappear” in an anonymous haul of discarded Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses were saved from death in a Mexican slaughterhouse last week by a covert rescue effort that crisscrossed the U.S. and Canada. Racing against the clock while handling delicate negotiations with kill-buyers who insisted there would be no deal if horse Jockey Club names were released to the public, rescuers managed to quietly raise $10,000 in two days to save seven young Thoroughbreds and two Quarter Horses whose identities may never be made public. According to Mindy Lovell of Transitions Thoroughbreds in […]
