FEATURE
Honouring your beautiful Thoroughbreds & Standardbreds We asked for photos and stories, you gave them to us in spades. Here, we publish our top ten, with prizes for all. Thank you for showing us how special your horses are to you in their lives after racing.
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ere at HorseVibes, many of us have Thoroughbreds we’ve competed on, bred from, had as companion horses, play with in therapy work, and generally enjoy. They have larger-than-life personalities, for sure, and we were so moved by your stories and photos that we’ve chosen eleven of the best, which we are sure will move our readers as much they moved us. Congratulations to our top three. Amy Cullen wowed us with her story of Cartoosh. Amy has won a copy of the just published book, From Newmarket to Riverside, the journey of the Thoroughbred auctioneer company,
Inglis, from their humble beginnings to their amazing complex at Warwick Farm. She also receives a one-year subscription to the printed edition of HorseVibes, and a woven belt. Our runners-up Jodie Lee and Stephanie Huntley have both won a one-year subscription to HorseVibes, and a beautiful woven belt. Our other entrants have all been given a oneyear subscription to HorseVibes. We hope you enjoy your prizes and congratulations. We are so thrilled to have given you the chance to show off your Thoroughbreds. Long may they rein over us!
AmyCullen Cartoosh is 22. She was born in November 1997, and her race name was Royal Cartoosh. She wasn’t a brilliant race horse, she only won a small amount of money, so she went on to be a broodmare, and had two fillies. Originally she was meant to be on a three-month lease with me. I got her in poor condition, and after I got her the owners communication ceased completely and she’s been with me ever since. We will have been together seven years on the 28th of November this year, and I got her when she was 15. She has the absolutely sweetest temperament. It’s true with mares, once they trust you they give you their all. And she sure does. We’ve showjumped, evented, and we did some dressage through 2013-2014. In 2015 a stick went through her leg at the beach and she tore her digital flexor tendon, and her suspensory tendon. I was told she wouldn’t be paddock sound. 295 days later we were back in the saddle starting a rehab program. She’s had the largest vet bills: torn tendons, two-eye lacerations, torn hamstrings, colic, surgery at UQ Gatton, where a mass needed to be removed from her sinus – she had an Ethmoid Heamatoma, she’s had leg and shoulder lacerations, abscesses. You name it, she’s had it, but every
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