Jane* will never forget finding out what the actual price tag was on her favorite amateur horse. She’d flown to the Midwest to try a plain bay 11-year-old.
“He was an adequate mover, but he jumped just the way I rode. It was like magic, me getting on him,” Jane said. “I talked to my trainer in the aisle after I tried him and said, ‘He’s 11. He’s never shown on the East Coast. He’s not pretty. $50,000 seems like a lot,’ since that was the top end of my budget.
“He told me, ‘I’ve already tried to get the price down, and they’re firm at $50,000.’ ”
Irving E. Goldman
Horseman Irving E. Goldman of Franklin, Mich., died on Aug. 13. He was 90.
Mr. Goldman was born on April 30, 1923, to Harry and Bertha Goldman in Detroit.
He attended Michigan State University but was called to serve in World War II during his sophomore year. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry and saw combat in Europe.
Irene C. Acker
Horsewoman Irene C. Acker died of Alzheimer’s disease on Aug. 10 in Wilmington, N.C. She was 93.
Mrs. Acker was born in New York City on June 25, 1920, and lived there and on Long Island until the early 1970s when she moved to the Tryon, N.C., area for access to more hunting country.
It all started with a $25 donation from a para-equestrian. Or maybe it was the 17-year-old truck that set the wheels in motion. The whole thing might even go all the way back to the mare with a broken cannon bone.
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when and where Molly Martin began her journey with H Wrendition to the Markel/USEF Developing Horse Grand Prix National Championship (p. 40), but looking back on it now, it still seems a little surreal to the Redmond, Wash., trainer.
With racing in her blood, this teenager has jumped from a NAPPA junior race standout to a successful point-to-point jockey.
As Mary Motion walked downstairs on Christmas morning in 2008, she noticed a strange sight.
“There was a card on the Christmas tree, and a ribbon was attached to it,” she said. “The ribbon went out the window, across the lawn, all the way to a stall.”
Standing in the stall was a 15-hand dark bay Thoroughbred. In that instant, the 14-year-old knew that Orpington was hers.
With eight horses confirmed dead at press time and 19 U.S. Equestrian Federation competitions cancelled, the latest EHV outbreak is making an impact on the sport horse world.
An outbreak of equine herpes virus myeloencephalopathy, the neurological form of equine herpes virus (EHV-1), has been reported in eight western U.S. states, prompting the cancellation of 19 U.S. Equestrian Federation competitions.
If you were a competitor, spectator, volunteer or even an avid follower at home, your participation in this year’s Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games counted.
Kentucky bid for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in 2004. Now, after 6 years of planning and preparation, the first WEG held on U.S. soil came to an end on Oct. 10. There were 81 medals awarded in an event involving enough speculation, scandal and Totilas to put any drugstore mystery novel to shame, but the real impact of the WEG lies in the numbers behind the scenes.
Since Canada failed to qualify a team for the 2004 Olympics, Ian Millar will be Canada's lone representative at the Athens Olympics, riding Promise Me.
Eric Lamaze, aboard Tempete, and Jill Henselwood, aboard Special Ed, are the alternates.
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