Low claimer with 41 starts rocks Prix St. Georges
A hardscrabble racehorse who bounced between Suffolk Downs and Finger Lakes, earning a pittance and never shining during his 41-race career, continues to rise up through the Dressage levels, winning against the most rarified Warmbloods. In his debut last month at a Prix St. Georges-level show in Nottingham, N.H., OTTB Real Gentleman took a fourth-place ribbon against seasoned Warmblood competitors, putting in a flowing, steady and brilliant test, says his owner and businesswoman Ann Seamonds. Real Gentleman Barn name: Rio Sire: Gone for Real Dam: Sunshine Star, by Star de Naskra Foal date: Feb. 5, 2006“It was a very hot […]
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Boy saves doomed T’bred with birthday cash
A freckle-faced boy with a shock of red hair pledged his birthday money last August to save a doomed chestnut Thoroughbred from the Canadian slaughter pipeline when nobody else would. Brandon, 9, of Ontario says he couldn’t bear the thought of the pretty ex-racehorse, whose looks reminded him of his own, going to slaughter. So after his mother MJ Allen explained to him that 17-year-old mare Karazan has been purchased by a meat buyer and would likely go to the slaughterhouse, he asked her to spend his birthday money to save her instead. “I did it because nobody else was going […]
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‘Busted’ the racehorse has all the right moves
On the track, Filibustered had a reputation for getting into so much mischief that by the time he left racing he’d earned the nickname “Busted.” He’d been caught so often doing things a well-mannered racehorse just shouldn’t be doing. Though stories of his racetrack antics were forgotten, his unusual shenanigans continued to create a buzz and backstory about a horse who raised a few eyebrows on his way to becoming a show jumping star who did things “his way.” Like the time he became annoyed with something only he could fathom, then pulled to a stop and proceeded to lie […]
