Clubhouse Q&A: Her Derby hats help horses
Sally Faith Steinmann is a hat-maker, an artist, and horse-lover who has been in the news lately. Both CNN and the New York Times ran lengthy articles about her Kentucky Derby hats, and the way she has parlayed her gifts as a milliner into charity for ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds. In this week’s Clubhouse Q&A with OffTrackThoroughbreds, Steinmann describes her work, and her passion for horses. Q: Stories about your Kentucky Derby hats have graced the New York Times and CNN.com. Sally, first of all, congratulations. How did these major media outlets find you? A: The timing for the interviews could not […]
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Clubhouse Q&A: From spurs to Spursuader
Linda Hauck of Ontario has had a deep passion for Eventing and Thoroughbreds throughout a stellar equestrian profession, which included an Advanced level competition career in the 1990s. Today she works as both a Level 2 equine coach and technical delegate in Canada, and has a career re-training ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds in their second careers. Throughout her rewarding life with horses however, there has always been one issue that has nagged her. Traditional spurs, thought to be such wonderful aids for teaching, often proved aggravating to horses, who might kick, pin their ears, and otherwise overreact to a poke in the […]
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Clubhouse Q&A: Catching up with Circuitous
Associates at New York-based Mosaic Racing Stable agreed long ago that if the horses who ran for them were not well taken care of, they would have no part of the racing business. “The agreement,” explained managing partner Monica Driver in a March interview with OffTrackThoroughbreds.com, “is that the horse will always come first. We will make sure we take care of our horses.” Horses are cross-trained in second disciplines and hacked on trail rides to keep them happy, in preparation for their next-careers, after their racing days end. And at the slightest hint of an injury, as was the […]
