OTTB is one of few to go clean in Rolex jumping
After conquering every hurdle on the course at Rolex this year, including a tension-filled dressage performance, and a rain-soaked run on cross-country day, 17-year-old OTTB Anthony Patch pricked his ears, lifted his feet ever-so-carefully, and pulled off one of the only clear rounds of stadium jumping in an electric atmosphere that had the spectators riveted. Competing against 54 other horse/rider teams representing the best and the brightest from around the globe, Anthony Patch and his longtime owner/rider Lainey Ashker put in one of only four clean rounds. This clean, clear ride followed a cross-country run through a sodden course with […]
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$750 horse blazes a four-star future at Rolex
Five years after buying an off-track Thoroughbred for $750, a one-time investment banker and her bargain-basement gelding, AP Prime, went big this past weekend, competing against top international riders and scoring mid-pack at the fabled Rolex Kentucky Three Day. After successfully completing all three phases of the grueling competition Sunday, Lang-Gluscic hugged her horse and slapped his neck in congratulations as the pair crossed the threshold and became bonafide four-star athletes. “It was a dream come true,” Lang-Gluscic says. “It doesn’t feel like I went to Rolex on a $750 horse anymore. I feel like I went to Rolex on […]
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Far Rockaway leaves low claimers in the dust
Far Rockaway may not have set the world on fire at the racetrack, but he sure did light up Facebook last year when fans and new friends saw the 4-year-old had dropped like a stone in a year’s time, running at the bottom-of-the barrel. The grandson of Dynaformer, and progeny of millionaire Macho Uno ran for a $75,000 tag in May 2013, but had fallen so far that he was scrambling in a $2,500 claimer at Los Alamitos Race Course. “Clearly this horse had no interest in running races anymore,” says Jenny Earhart, owner of Royal Star Ranch in California. Earhart has taken […]
