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OTTB Spotlight – Henry

OTTB Spotlight – Henry

He’s hunky… he’s dashing… he’s All In‘s Henry as this week’s OTTB Spotlight! What is his registered name?  House of Fortuny Lineage?  His dad is Atticus and mom is Mitzi. His great great grandpa is Secretariat 🙂 Did your OTTB race? If so, how’d they do? Yes and he was way to slow! What do you do now with him? Hunters If your OTTB was a musician, who would they be? Ummm not sure, how about an actor? I love…

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OTTB Spotlight – Keller

OTTB Spotlight – Keller

Keller is a horse at my current barn, and the kind of school horse everyone should have the pleasure of riding as their learn the finer points of horsemanship   He is safe, but not easy.  For an upper level rider, he can do the step and jump 2’6″ – 2’9″ with his special school horse version of flying changes but he can also step down for dead beginners to just jog politely around the arena.  Basically, he breaks the OTTBs are crazy…

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OTTB Spotlight – Carlos

OTTB Spotlight – Carlos

OTTBs can make excellent hunter/jumpers, but we usually hear about them being stars in eventing – especially in the blogging world.  That’s part of what makes L. Williams’ Carlos at Viva Carlos so special.  He’s an opinionated OTTB that has success in the hunter, jumper, and equitation ring and egads of personality to boot! What is his/her registered name? Ugh.. do I have to. It’s so ugly… Senor Prospector D: Lineage? His family tree is full of assholes.. Mr. Prospector…

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OTTB Spotlight – Viper

OTTB Spotlight – Viper

I’d like to introduce a new segment over here simply called the OTTB Spotlight!  I bet you could connect the dots based on the name alone, but I will be featuring different former track horses on this blog and what they’re doing in their current life.  Besides, who doesn’t love a good ‘ol OTTB? Today’s spotlight is Viper, who you may recognize from some of my blog posts around here.  Viper is owned by an adult amateur at my barn, and…

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