Clubhouse Q&A: Remaking her OTTB
His coat shining, his ears forward, Duncan moved in balance with his owner and rider Lauren Cheeseman. It took about a year to arrive at this point, and Cheeseman was so proud of their accomplishments that she had photos taken that would always remind her of how wonderful it felt to be riding her trusty ex-racehorse on a perfect Canadian day. In this week’s Clubhouse Q&A, Cheeseman talks about her accomplishments with her ex-racehorse, who ran under the name El Gran Papa, as she looks eagerly toward a future of showing. Q: Lauren, you recently had a wonderful series of […]
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Clubhouse Q&A: Totally Thoroughbred Show
This interview was originally published on July 18, 2012. When Maryland Jockey Club Racing Secretary Georganne Hale helped dream up the idea of the Totally Thoroughbred Show at the Pimlico racetrack last Saturday, she thought, at best, she’d attract a total of 105 horses to complete in seven classes, each with 10- to-15 horses. Oh how she miscalculated! In a good way. Some 300 horses and more than 800 entrants hauled into Pimlico July 14th to strut their stuff in the steamy Maryland heat last weekend. Sleek and gleaming, yet cool in the “big atmosphere,” former racehorses gently carried tots […]
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Reader’s Clubhouse: ‘Racing from Death’
Long before she piloted Circus Rullah to victory at the 1986 Potomac Hunt (steeplechase) Race, and long before she dove into the exciting world of Maryland Thoroughbred racing as an owner and trainer, Lynda Sasscer Hill was an eager fifth-grade student tasked with a writing assignment. Instructed by her teacher to pen a story, the little girl, obsessed like most with tales of The Black Stallion and other horsey lore, let her passion come tumbling out in words on paper. When her teacher finished reading her work to the class, a child asked, breaking a momentary silence, “Well, what happens […]
