Photo of the Week: Rahy’s spirit runs deep
Laurie Tuozzolo adopted Rahy’s son, Kim’s Rahy off the track from Suffolk Downs in 2000 at 65 starts. And shortly after, she has been hopping bareback on her 21-year-old gelding and riding him to the Oak Swamp in Rhode Island to take a swim. (Please see earlier story on the pair:http://offtrackthoroughbreds.com/2011/09/22/swimming-with-a-thoroughbred-recaptures-joy/). The hot summers spent enjoying the feel of cool water slushing past their legs took Tuozzolo back to her childhood, and help push the pressures of life aside. For her special horse, she wrote this poem: “When I See My Horse “The long hard day becomes easy, The pressure […]
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Photo of the Week: Bath time for Archie’s Echo
Archie’s Echo is a 26-year-old T’bred, who years ago raced predominantly in New England, and was rescued earlier this summer by an old friend. Sam Elliott, formerly of Suffolk Downs, and current vice president for racing at Parx, pulled out his credit card in June to save the long-ago racehorse from death in a slaughterhouse. Teaming up with Parx’s Thoroughbred retirement charity Turning for Home, he pulled the underweight, one-eyed racehorse to safety. Please see earlier article here: http://offtrackthoroughbreds.com/2015/06/22/one-eyed-tbred-rescued-by-parx-vp-and-friends/ Since making it out of a kill pen by the skin of his teeth, Archie’s Echo has been enjoying the TLC […]
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Photo of the Week: Horse husbandry
In 2010, Susan and Gary Mangus wound down their lifelong show and breeding business in the Quarter Horse world, and soon decided to purchase OTTB mares Rosehanna, followed shortly by Zip of Fools. The pair, pictured with Gary, boasted impressive track records and bloodlines, and so the husband/wife team decided to make them mothers. “I know there are people out there who will criticize us for breeding these mares, but they are both good enough to have their genetics continued. The mares have forever homes with us, neither will be sold,” Susan Magnus says. “And so they live like pampered queens […]
