Race warriors Ea, Hollywood Left retired sound
Two warriors of the track, one the son of the great Dynaformer, who ran with the best before he dropped in class, the other a hard-knocking winner who ground out 105 starts in his lifetime, saw their lives in racing end not hard, but with a soft, gentle welcoming into a life of blue sky and green grass. Just before Christmas, Dynaformer’s son Ea, the handsome embodiment of his famous father, who also sports the same white chin marking of his famous brother Barbaro, arrived at Florida TRAC fit as a fiddle, and ready to take on the world. He […]
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Bareback over 5 foot wall, trust a TB
Gripping her mare’s warm sides without saddle and stirrups, Priscilla Godsoe sent her Thoroughbred galloping toward the five-foot jump. As the horse’s pace quickened in the moments before takeoff, Godsoe knew this: her ex-racer was the best horse to take her safely, bareback, over a high jump. “I don’t think I trusted any other horse to go down and jump that wall,” she says. Surrounded by elite equestrian competitors last month, Godsoe and her 13-year-old mare Judge Beautiful bounded over the bright red jump in the center of Plantation Field grand prix field, demonstrating, she says, the innate instinct the […]
