Photo of the Week: Charmed, I’m sure
Maggie’s Charm was retired by breeder Lorraine Reilly and her connections to a houseful of boys and a mother who desperately needed to reward her hard work with the perfect equine companion, says Barclay Lipsey McCauley. “She was a gift to myself after three boys,” she says. “I adopted her through Thoroughbred Placement Resources at the Laurel racetrack, when she was 3 ½. She had failed at about six races, so I brought her home and retrained her myself.” An amateur rider in the hunter/jumper ring, McCauley was astounded to discover how well Maggie’s Charm listens, and by her gentle […]
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Weekly Photo: Acadia’s mountain-climbing OTTB
Miss Rubynell and her owner/rider Katherine Detmer both packed up their old lives to start fresh in Maine. Two years ago, Detmer was fresh out of architecture school and beginning her new career when she wrote a $1,000 check, money she could ill afford at the time, to buy the OTTB she’d made friends at the barn where she took riding lessons. Miss Rubynell New name: Eveliina Barn name: Daisy Sire: Secret Slewisky Dam: Far Beyond Compare, by Pandan Foal date: Jan. 31, 2003After learning the mare she calls Daisy was to be swapped for a better lesson-horse prospect, Detmer […]
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Weekly Photo: Kangaroo Kid and his Russian
As a young girl growing up in Moscow, where male athletes were favored far more than the females, Maria Bogdanova-Peifer had to fight and claw her way into the saddle. Told no more times than she could count, the persistent 12-year-old finally found a coach who softened when she pleaded: “All I want is a chance.” Though the class of male riders all laughed when she was palmed off on an old, stiff Thoroughbred nobody wanted to ride, she was thrilled at the chance. And though there were times she could barely hold on as she bounced “all over the […]
