‘What’s a horse like her doing here?’
On an August night in 2012 when Banker’s Heiress quietly appeared at a catchall animal rescue in New Hampshire, Lisa Healy and her husband John did a double take. And they thought, “What is she doing here?” It wasn’t that “here” was so bad. The Live and Let Live Farm in Chichester, N.H. was home to a mixed breed herd of 70 horses, and the Healy’s spent many fulfilling hours tossing hay to the motley crew. But the bright chestnut Thoroughbred mare stood out like a peacock, says Healy who notes, “The first time I saw her, I couldn’t believe […]
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Girl: Love shared with sick horse ‘was magic’
A racehorse so skeletal that both the curious and concerned would drive out to see her, and marvel that an animal like that could still stand when others in her condition had died, has found both sanctuary and a young guardian angel who says the horse is “magic.” Jo Jo’s Gypsy, a 16-hand mare weighing 758 pounds in August 2014 has blossomed into a 1,200-pound beauty who now shares her life and her fate with a 7-year-old girl who has walked along with her on every step of the mare’s tentative road to recovery. Jo Jo’s Gypsy Sire: Johannesburg Dam: […]
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Mishaps and setbacks led to the show ring
A gifted Thoroughbred warhorse hobbled by luck so bad he once tore off part of his hoof during a flight from Germany to California — a terrifying accident that ended his Breeders’ Cup aspirations and foreshadowed many close calls to come — eventually ended up rescued from an auction at age 16, and headed to, of all places, the dressage ring. First Service, a German-bred bay gelding with speed and promise, was traveling to California in 1999 when he spooked in the aircraft he was riding in. Rearing up, the horse known by his nickname Prince, threw a fit, and […]
