$750 horse blazes a four-star future at Rolex
Five years after buying an off-track Thoroughbred for $750, a one-time investment banker and her bargain-basement gelding, AP Prime, went big this past weekend, competing against top international riders and scoring mid-pack at the fabled Rolex Kentucky Three Day. After successfully completing all three phases of the grueling competition Sunday, Lang-Gluscic hugged her horse and slapped his neck in congratulations as the pair crossed the threshold and became bonafide four-star athletes. “It was a dream come true,” Lang-Gluscic says. “It doesn’t feel like I went to Rolex on a $750 horse anymore. I feel like I went to Rolex on […]
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Far Rockaway leaves low claimers in the dust
Far Rockaway may not have set the world on fire at the racetrack, but he sure did light up Facebook last year when fans and new friends saw the 4-year-old had dropped like a stone in a year’s time, running at the bottom-of-the barrel. The grandson of Dynaformer, and progeny of millionaire Macho Uno ran for a $75,000 tag in May 2013, but had fallen so far that he was scrambling in a $2,500 claimer at Los Alamitos Race Course. “Clearly this horse had no interest in running races anymore,” says Jenny Earhart, owner of Royal Star Ranch in California. Earhart has taken […]
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Mysteries swirl, friends form over kill-pen horse
After reading for years about the joys and rewards of rescuing kill-pen Thoroughbreds, Jennifer Ferrell jumped in with both feet this past January and landed deep in a mystery. It began with the identity of the horse she rescued. After spotting a picture of a shell-shocked looking chestnut Thoroughbred, shown in a well-known meat buyer’s Shippensburg, Penn. lot, Ferrell purchased the horse for $675 with the help of volunteer Thoroughbred advocate, Beth Walker. Walker, a registered nurse and unpaid volunteer for the PA Kill Pen Network, had helped to identify and advertise the horse as 12-year-old mare C.A.T.K. Fly, a […]
