NY claimer hits it big after Puerto Rico rescue
All roads led back to Saratoga Springs for a New York racehorse whose name and history were so intertwined with the leafy epicenter of summertime racing where her racing career began. After running her heart out in the low claimers far and wide, Saratogaatseventy found her way back to Upstate New York last month after two of her fans moved heaven and earth to rescue her. Jane LaSure of Cazenovia, N.Y. and Marlene Murray of the Thoroughbred charity R.A.C.E. Fund, tag-teamed in a joint effort this past summer to fundraise and ship the race mare home after the beautiful, gentle […]
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Ride across USA on horseback nears end
A 60-year-old California woman and her riding companion are within 150 miles of completing a 3,000-mile journey across the country on horseback. Valerie Ashker and Peter Friedman crossed into Grafton, West Virginia yesterday, planning to make camp in Evansville before nightfall, according to video messages posted by Ashker on her Facebook page 2nd Makes Thru Starting Gates. Wearing a bright orange helmet, Ashker rode off-track Thoroughbred Primitivo while Friedman, in a cowboy hat, tilting against the glare, piloted Solar Express along a busily traveled suburban street. Exclaiming that the weather was “beautiful,” Ashker thanked the local Dairy Queen for complimentary […]
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Rescued Mercer County horse joins Our Mims
Our Mims Retirement Haven recently welcomed a broodmare saved along with many other horses in a large-scale seizure in Mercer County. On Oct. 31, the Paris, Ky. sanctuary for broodmares over 20, welcomed Kidnap Katie to the herd. One of 43 horses seized in the well-publicized Mercer County case of horse abandonment in June, Kidnap Katie walked off the trailer and into the loving arms of young horse whisperer Kaylee Brook, granddaughter of Our Mims Retirement Haven Founder and President Jeanne Mirabito. (Please see story about the Mercer County horses here: Charles Borrell enters Alford Plea; will serve two years probation). […]
