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 […]
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Knee treatment saves famous ‘painting horse’
Dr. Kimberly Brokaw, DVM, of Maryland announced this week that novel treatments introduced to counteract potentially life-threatening knee inflammation and arthritis in famous “painting” ex-racehorse Metro Meteor, appear to be working. Metro, the talented ex-racehorse who paints abstract in acrylics, and who has been featured on myriad national news shows, suffers soft tissue swelling within the joint capsule of his knees, combined with an arthritic condition and extra bone growth, Brokaw explains. His condition, which developed after multiple knee surgeries to remove bone chips, rendered him at the top level of a lameness scale. Brokaw explains: “The Lameness Scale is […]
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TRF kicks off Twilight Jumper series award
Last week, under the lights of the Great Meadow arena at The Plains in Virginia, The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) awarded the first in a series of new honors to an outstanding Thoroughbred jumper competing at the Twilight Jumper series. Lenny Hale, president, CEO and chairman of the board of the TRF presented rider Grant Chungo and his off-track Thoroughbred Ballinure (Parker’s Storm Cat x High Rolla) with the TRF—Outstanding Thoroughbred Jumper Award as part of an ongoing effort to raise awareness about the worth of the Thoroughbred sport horse. “It was such a great night,” says Lizzy Beer, TRF […]
