Spokeshorse Little Silver Charm has a new book
Little Silver Charm, the official “spokeshorse” at Old Friends, the not-for-profit Thoroughbred Retirement Facility in Georgetown, Ky., will make his debut as an author with the release of A Charmed Life (Old Friends Press). The 80-page, softcover book, penned with the assistance from former Boston Globe columnist Diane White, combines selected commentary from Little Silver Charm’s popular Facebook page with photos from Eclipse-Award winning photographer Barbara Livingston, the Lexington-based EquiSport Photos, and New York lenser Connie Bush, among many others. Through his wry and witty observations Little Silver Charm chronicles the story of Old Friends and showcases many of the celebs that have visited the farm over the […]
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New plan teaches unsound horses to help people
In an effort to help injured or otherwise un-rideable retired racehorses find new careers, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) this month sent an inaugural class of horses —two bays and a gray—to school to learn how to become therapy horses. Bay geldings Cog’s My Man (Louis Quatorze x Ah Love), and Son of a Gun (Iron Deputy x Colette) along with gray gelding Bold Mon (Maria’s Mon x Bold and Gorgeous) shipped April 29 from the TRF’s Wallkill, N.Y. facility to Coventry, Conn., where they will be trained by Brenda Stoeke to work with people who have endured trauma. Chosen […]
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‘All the news’ on American Pharoah, new book
As soon as American Pharoah turned for home in the Belmont Stakes last year, it was clear to everybody in the press box that “nobody was getting him.” “It was electric,” recalls award-winning New York Times Reporter Joe Drape, who was there for the historic event. “Everyone was restrained at first, saying things like ‘Oh yeah, he’s got it.’ Then the thunder in the grandstand started—it was soul quaking. Then I saw people crying in the press box, and you do choke up a little knowing that you just saw something great, and it doesn’t come often. Not only did […]
