$750 OTTB set to make 2nd Rolex bid; pumped
Shaking off the disappointment of last year’s failed run at Rolex, Leah Lang-Gluscic and her $750 Thoroughbred AP Prime are back and better than before in the run up to her second bid at the nation’s fabled three-day event. Sound as a bell and more graceful than ever, AP delivered exceptional overall work at the Carolina International CIC and Horse Trial last month, with specific improvements to his dressage work, Lang-Gluscic says. AP Prime Sire: Aptitude Dam: Czarina Kate Foal date: March 14, 2005“My coach and I had a lesson there a few days before the test, working on the […]
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Trampled on meat truck, mare now helps others
An older broodmare, who years ago was trampled inside a crowded truck headed for the slaughterhouse, nearly losing her life, now spends her days offering solace to an orphaned filly. Press Exclusive, 20, a racemare and mother of nine consecutive foals, would have died in December 2012 were it not for the intervention of Thoroughbred rescue volunteer Mindy Lovell. The Ontario woman was able to convince a veterinarian to turn the battered mare over to her care, and nursed the animal back to health. A year later, the ex-racehorse was transported to a lifetime sanctuary at Equine Advocates in New […]
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A T’bred tapped twice on the withers by fate
A Thoroughbred gelding, who was “tapped twice on the withers by fate,” has transitioned from a top race trainer to a premier hunter/jumper team on his way to making a mark among elite show horses, and possibly as a breed ambassador. Bold Charger, a bay gelding who sold as a 2-year-old for nearly $300,000, and who trained with Hall of Famer Bill Mott at one point, has been welcomed into the rarified show barns of Heritage Farm of N.Y., a facility operated by Michael and Andre Dignelli, who were named the 2011 Show Hunter Horsemen of the Year by the Chronicle […]
