Saratoga abuzz over golf day for horses, jocks
Enthusiasm and passion is building as the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF, Inc.) and the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF) prepare to tee off a golf event raising funds and awareness for injured jockeys and retired racehorses. As Tee Off for the TRF and PDJF prepares to get underway Aug. 23 at the McGregor Links Golf Club just outside Saratoga, N.Y., buzz is growing for the event, says Eclipse Award winning jockey and TRF board member Richard “The Mig” Migliore. “It’s going to be such a fun event. Enthusiastic and passionate people have really rallied behind this idea,” says Migliore. “It’s such a […]
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OTTB ‘shock and awe’ in Quarter Horse country
The most shocking part about riding a Thoroughbred in Quarter Horse country is how easy it’s been. So says longtime barrel racer Melanie Lyell of Tennessee. There were no explosive moments. No funny business with orange barrels. And the only thing that has been “run away with” is the heart of the equestrian who says her jaw drops nearly every day she places a western saddle on the back of her seasoned ex-racehorse Runbridled and goes for a slow, steady ride. “Before I adopted Runbridled, I’d heard so many stories in the Quarter Horse world,” says Lyell, a Tennessee equestrian. […]
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Storybook karma leads OTTB to the top
An unsung racehorse just four years off the track won two blue ribbons last weekend in the kind of dressage competition few horses, of any breed, ever attain. Real Gentleman, a low-claimer who ran 41 races bouncing between Boston’s Suffolk Downs and the Finger Lakes racetrack played such a winning hand in two Prix St. Georges shows last weekend that even the judges gushed, a little, in the collective remarks portion of the score sheet. “A pleasure to watch such lovely basics,” wrote the judge, who was among those giving the OTTB the highest scores in FEI rated shows, Oyster […]
