A Path Back to the Road Not Taken
““There were ten minutes to wait in the vet box before the start of the cross-country …. ” So began the first story that I almost published, and with it, the story of how the seeds of a dream, once … Continued
Luck and other Mysteries.
1981 I was a sophomore at Yale when I wrote a story called Keeping House. It was about a woman who refused to get out of bed, and so her house was slowly overtaken by dust, until she was eventually … Continued
Out of “Luck,” horse finds a new home
Bohemian’s first job as a racehorse didn’t workout too well. He never “broke his maiden” and aged out of the racing industry with less than 10 starts. His second job as an actor (portraying a racehorse) for the HBO tv … Continued
My first thought was “oh I like him…”
When my husband, Craig, and I left for the 2010 World Equestrian Games at the Kentucky Horse Park, I thought I’d come home with some great memories and maybe a pair of new breeches from the trade fair. I never … Continued
Was that her way of saying “thanks, and I love you?”
Tory is an Off the Track Thoroughbred that descends on her sire line from the Irish champion Danzatore and on her mother’s side from the Preakness winner Tank’s Prospect. She was not very successful at the races, running mostly in … Continued
Divorce, fear of other harnessed horses and snakes!
One night I found myself sitting at a working horse Clydesdale show horseless after losing mine to colic not long before, when I struck up a conversation with a good friend who I hadn’t seen for a while. After a … Continued
How does the son of a Kentucky Derby winner end up here?
My Horse, Jet, was born the son of a Kentucky Derby winner. Lil E Tee was a longshot when he won the derby in 1992. Not much was made if his pedigree, or of his talent. He won when he … Continued
Just two kids, trying to figure the world out together.
When I was looking for a horse last year, I first thought I wanted what almost every rider seeking a horse wants — an already well trained, ‘made’ horse that was going to take me to the levels I wanted … Continued
A statuesque 17H Thoroughbred was reduced to bones
Forrest Gump had his time at the track. He was born in 1999 and raced in PA and DE. He ran a total of 14 times and only won once earning a mere $26,000. It seemed that his trainer and … Continued
Named PJ, for ‘the project horse’, the nickname stuck
PJ’s story is a long one, but I’ll start from the beginning. My mother, Andrea, is a trainer and for a large part of my life we lived on a horse farm in NJ where my mother ran a training … Continued
