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Joe Clancy My sons want to go to a funeral. If there’s a sure sign you’re getting old, this is it. Jack, 17, and Ryan, 20, both asked about attending Monday’s service for trainer Tom Voss, who died this week.
We’re not related to Voss. We didn’t grow up in his neighborhood. But, like plenty of people in those categories and beyond, we’re impacted by his death. Deeply.
Tom Bowman picked up the microphone and started talking to the 300 or so guests at the first open house in the history of Heritage Stallions.
The Eclispe Awards were Saturday night at Gulfstream Park in Florida. No, the TIHR team was not there. Blame the travel budget or the cold or pending southern swings for some in the next month.
Like a baseball player hanging up his spikes and turning to professional golf, Thoroughbred Icabad Crane is trying something new.
Like a baseball player hanging up his spikes and turning to professional golf, Thoroughbred Icabad Crane is trying something new. The retired racehorse made 33 starts for owner Earle Mack, winning stakes and placing third in the 2008 Preakness.
Big Brown won that day, but Icabad Crane parlayed that brush with greatness into a racing career that lasted until 2013 and he’s not finished as the 9-year-old gelding recently joined the barn of international three-day event rider Phillip Dutton.
In the last month, Icabad Crane learned to jump, took some early dressage lessons, even splashed through a water hazard while impressing his new trainer, an Olympian for his native Australia and the United States during a long eventing career.
Eight thousand four hundred ninety five. That’s how many words I have in a file called “01-06 notes.docx” on my computer. They didn’t all arrive Jan. 6. That’s when they started. And they haven’t just been on one computer either – they’ve been bouncing around between a desktop, a laptop, Google drive.
A suspected case of equine herpesvirus (EHV-1) has been reported at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland, resulting in the start of quarantine measures, though veterinarian Dr. Kathy Anderson is optimistic the incident is isolated and contained.
I think I wrote this at the beginning – these moments on my top 10 list from 2013 appear in no particular order. They’re also not meant to be some sort of year in review. They are moments, minutes, stopovers, glimpses into a year of wins, losses, happiness, sadness, magic, travel. And of sport.
Two to go on this top 10 moments ride. The driveway is shoveled. One child is in Germany. Another is sledding. Another is at the neighbor’s house. The plumber went to the supply store. The dog is sleeping in the sunshine pouring into the house. Ready…write.
January 2? How did that happen? My top 10 list stopped at five so diving back in as the snow falls, the dog takes a break from making tracks in the yard and the kids rejoice over an early snow-day announcement.
