New plan teaches unsound horses to help people
In an effort to help injured or otherwise un-rideable retired racehorses find new careers, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) this month sent an inaugural class of horses —two bays and a gray—to school to learn how to become therapy horses. Bay geldings Cog’s My Man (Louis Quatorze x Ah Love), and Son of a Gun (Iron Deputy x Colette) along with gray gelding Bold Mon (Maria’s Mon x Bold and Gorgeous) shipped April 29 from the TRF’s Wallkill, N.Y. facility to Coventry, Conn., where they will be trained by Brenda Stoeke to work with people who have endured trauma. Chosen […]
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‘All the news’ on American Pharoah, new book
As soon as American Pharoah turned for home in the Belmont Stakes last year, it was clear to everybody in the press box that “nobody was getting him.” “It was electric,” recalls award-winning New York Times Reporter Joe Drape, who was there for the historic event. “Everyone was restrained at first, saying things like ‘Oh yeah, he’s got it.’ Then the thunder in the grandstand started—it was soul quaking. Then I saw people crying in the press box, and you do choke up a little knowing that you just saw something great, and it doesn’t come often. Not only did […]
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OTTB is one of few to go clean in Rolex jumping
After conquering every hurdle on the course at Rolex this year, including a tension-filled dressage performance, and a rain-soaked run on cross-country day, 17-year-old OTTB Anthony Patch pricked his ears, lifted his feet ever-so-carefully, and pulled off one of the only clear rounds of stadium jumping in an electric atmosphere that had the spectators riveted. Competing against 54 other horse/rider teams representing the best and the brightest from around the globe, Anthony Patch and his longtime owner/rider Lainey Ashker put in one of only four clean rounds. This clean, clear ride followed a cross-country run through a sodden course with […]
