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An OTTB at the Olympics makes the news

A 12-year-old off-track Thoroughbred, named this summer to the U.S. Eventing Team for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, was the subject of a full-page article in today’s Wall Street Journal. (Please click the Journal story here.) Blackfoot Mystery, an eye-catching, multi-talented Thoroughbred and Boyd Martin, an Olympic three-day Eventer, were among four horse/rider teams named to the U.S. team by the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF). In the article, Martin describes the “love at first sight” he felt for Blackfoot Mystery, and his Blackfoot Mystery Syndication, which reportedly consists of 13 members who raised $300,000 to purchase […]