Ride across USA on horseback nears end
A 60-year-old California woman and her riding companion are within 150 miles of completing a 3,000-mile journey across the country on horseback. Valerie Ashker and Peter Friedman crossed into Grafton, West Virginia yesterday, planning to make camp in Evansville before nightfall, according to video messages posted by Ashker on her Facebook page 2nd Makes Thru Starting Gates. Wearing a bright orange helmet, Ashker rode off-track Thoroughbred Primitivo while Friedman, in a cowboy hat, tilting against the glare, piloted Solar Express along a busily traveled suburban street. Exclaiming that the weather was “beautiful,” Ashker thanked the local Dairy Queen for complimentary […]
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Rescued Mercer County horse joins Our Mims
Our Mims Retirement Haven recently welcomed a broodmare saved along with many other horses in a large-scale seizure in Mercer County. On Oct. 31, the Paris, Ky. sanctuary for broodmares over 20, welcomed Kidnap Katie to the herd. One of 43 horses seized in the well-publicized Mercer County case of horse abandonment in June, Kidnap Katie walked off the trailer and into the loving arms of young horse whisperer Kaylee Brook, granddaughter of Our Mims Retirement Haven Founder and President Jeanne Mirabito. (Please see story about the Mercer County horses here: Charles Borrell enters Alford Plea; will serve two years probation). […]
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Derby winning team keeps promise to help OTTB
Making good on a promise to help an unremarkable racehorse who once passed through the hands of Kentucky Derby winning trainer Graham Motion, a staffer of the famous horseman worked tirelessly to secure a sanctuary home at the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation for a sweet gelding who’d run out of options. Because of a note written by Graham Motion’s Herringswell Stables Ltd., and affixed to Jockey Club paperwork for bay gelding Don’t Quit Dreaming, Sue Kenny, an office manager for the famous horseman who trained 2011 Derby winner Animal Kingdom, hit the phones on behalf of the little-known racehorse who loves peppermints […]
