![Charles, right, ponies Exaggerator to the winner's circle after the 2016 Preakness. Photo by Caris Photography and courtesy Kimberly Godwin Clark](http://offtrackthoroughbreds.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Exaggerator-and-pony-150x150.jpg)
Exaggerator pony went from rags to riches
The stately gray OTTB who pranced last month alongside 2016 Preakness winner Exaggerator, looking every inch the well-turned-out pony and the spitting image of his champion Dad Holy Bull, was once a ragamuffin living in a wintry Maryland field just waiting for his luck to change. Charolais led a humble life after his race career ended with a sixth-place finish at Laurel Park in 2004, recalls Kimberly Godwin Clark of Leighton Farm in Maryland. Somewhat rough around the edges with a patchy coat, Charolais looked to Clark like an animal in need of immediate TLC when their paths crossed sometime […]