Clubhouse Q&A: Riding a rearing horse
By attuning herself to the tiniest details of her horse’s attitude while lunging, noticing, for example, the set of her horse’s mouth, or the carriage of his head and neck, Karlene Bulson can tell if he might rear up later on with a rider on his back. The New York-based equestrian, and off-track Thoroughbred trainer, has spent a lot of time considering the little things when figuring out how to ensure a happy, safe ride. “I’ve been training horses since I was 16,” Bulson says. “My first horse was a big Standardbred gelding, and I’ve had all sorts of horses […]
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Clubhouse Q&A: Young fan opines on racing biz
The very idea of horseracing once gave Chelsea Fields a bad feeling. The 20-something Gen Y Californian thought there was something unseemly about it, almost creepy. But then it changed. Through her affiliation with Dr. Ken Lian’s veterinarian practice on the West Coast, she got to know real working Thoroughbred racehorses, and she began to see a whole different world. The racetrack, teaming with powerful, glistening Thoroughbreds, was a place where legendary horses like Seabiscuit had drawn thousands of fans decades before, and she soon found that the tracks still carried the mystique of those times, and were only waiting […]
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Clubhouse Q&A: ‘I’m a Thoroughbred liaison’
Long before Lezlie Wolff became what she calls a “Thoroughbred liaison” —writing articles for an industry magazine and helping to attract a new crop of race fans through the Emerald Downs New Comer’s Center—Ms. Wolff was mucking stalls at a Washington racecourse. The up-close perspective provided by that job at Longacres Racecourse, combined with her family background as racehorse owners, helped get Wolff moving toward a career in that world and a calling to raise awareness on behalf of the Thoroughbred. In this week’s Clubhouse Q&A, Wolff talks about her work to attract new fans to the game, and to […]
