A white OTTB and boy gallop into new chapter
A pretty white snowball of a horse drifted from home to home until he landed softly in the hands of a 13-year-old boy. Scattering Breezes had been in some fine hands along the way, but when young Austin Skeens hopped on his back and trotted him two years ago, then cantered near the fence line of the gelding’s Salem, Va., paddock, the perfect fit of horse and young man was evident. And strangers though they were, the connection was instant, they got along famously. “We went to see him right before Labor Day, and he was such a mellow horse […]
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Smarty Jones son retires in a full-circle moment
A stakes-winning son of Smarty Jones was retired to former Three Chimneys communications director Jen Roytz this winter after a lengthy and successful racing career. In a development that brought her history with Smarty Jones and his son full circle, Roytz went from her earlier days writing about the talented 9-year-old gelding offspring of Smarty Jones, to owning him outright as of February. “I spent a good part of my early career at Three Chimneys writing about I’ll Show Them. This was such a talented horse that his breeder Glen Hill Farm thought he was going to be a Derby […]
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Guilty verdict reached in Fla. slaughter case
The owner of a Florida farm in the cradle of horse show country was found guilty yesterday on charges stemming from evidence obtained in a months long investigation conducted by an animal welfare organization seeking to shutter illegal slaughterhouses. A jury of two men and four women returned a guilty verdict on two misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty, and two misdemeanor counts of killing animals, at the Palm Beach County Courthouse after a two-day trail of Jorge Garcia of Rancho Garcia. Following two days of testimony by the Florida-based organization The Animal Recovery Mission, including evidence centering on the allegedly torturous […]
