Photo of the Week: Horse husbandry
In 2010, Susan and Gary Mangus wound down their lifelong show and breeding business in the Quarter Horse world, and soon decided to purchase OTTB mares Rosehanna, followed shortly by Zip of Fools. The pair, pictured with Gary, boasted impressive track records and bloodlines, and so the husband/wife team decided to make them mothers. “I know there are people out there who will criticize us for breeding these mares, but they are both good enough to have their genetics continued. The mares have forever homes with us, neither will be sold,” Susan Magnus says. “And so they live like pampered queens […]
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Rescued Minn. HOTY ships to forever home
Tubby Time, the 2011 Canterbury Park Horse of the Year who was seized from a Pennsylvania kill lot in early May, traveled over the weekend to his new forever home in Ocala, Fla. With more flesh on the bone and in overall better health than the day he was plucked from a destined death in a slaughterhouse, Tubby was carefully loaded onto a trailer in Michigan and shipped southward with Vicki Henderson of Double HH Ranch Transport. Along the way, as the pair stopped at layover barns where Tubby unloaded, relaxed, and stretched his legs, Henderson posted photos of the […]
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Remembering C.L. Rib and his ‘monster moves’
“Don’t you worry,” the trainer said to the jockey. “He’s going to come from 35 lengths out of it, and he’ll be so far behind, but don’t give up. “He’ll start running at the top of the stretch — and he’ll come flying.” For nine years, stakes placed Ohio-bred C.L. Rib, or Ribby to his friends, put in performances on the track that brought fans to their feet and had announcers declaring, “Here comes C.L. Rib with a monster move!” He was the type of racehorse you not only wouldn’t forget, but he is still very much the topic of […]
