TAKE2: Second Careers for Thoroughbreds
Tuesday, April 11 2023
By Laura Scaletti Each year on the first Saturday of May, there’s one thing on many Americans’ minds: Who is going to win the Kentucky Derby? For two minutes, the sports world is transfixed on the athleticism of 3-year-old Thoroughbreds. Out of the 20,000 Thoroughbreds that are born each year, only 20 will have
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Jim Hagman: Building a Legacy Horse by Horse and Rider by Rider
Thursday, April 06 2023
By Laura Scaletti Portraits by Lindsey Long There was electricity in the air as the greatest athletes in the world arrived in Los Angeles, California, to take part in the Games of the XXIII Olympiad in 1984. Forty miles down the road, in Ventura County, California, another lifelong dream was about to come to fruition
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Frankie Thieriot Stutes: One Horse and One Woman Wonder
Wednesday, April 05 2023
By Laura Scaletti Photos by Lauren Ann Pace Frankie Thieriot Stutes believes the universe has a crazy way with horses and where it chooses to lead you. This has been evident from her first introduction to horses. Frankie was a self-proclaimed wild child, and her mom was looking for an activity that could tire her
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Drew Cheek: Eventing, Education and the Drew Boot
Wednesday, December 04 2019
By Laura Scaletti. Portraits by Adrienne Morella - Three-day eventer Drew Cheek, 17, wears many hats; among them, dual-enrollment as a high school and college student, working student at Blue Hill Farm in Unionville, Pennsylvania, and equestrian entrepreneur. Like most self-proclaimed “horse crazy girls,” Drew was captivated by horses from the start. Born into an adventurous, yet not equine-enthusiastic family, Drew started her campaign to get her parents, David and Danielle, to buy her a horse at 6 years old.
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