We first met Lara at the Area VIII AGM in Cincinnati when she told us about her adopted OTTB Shooby Do, and how she combined a few days a week working at The Makers Mark Secretariat Center at the Kentucky Horse Park with riding at home in Tennessee, and that she trained with former Rolex Kentucky winner and local hero Dorothy Crowell. Since then I’ve followed her and her lovely little horse with interest, and in the interest of full disclosure, a certain fondness. After rocking round the tough intermediate cross-country at Red Hills we caught up once more.
Unfortunately Lara and Shooby Do had a couple of rails down and some time in the stadium the next day which dropped them down the order, and Lara was bereft but I did have to stifle a giggle (sorry, Lara!) when I saw Dorothy making a face and a fake punched fist at her, “If you apologise to me one more time, I swear….” I think it’s fairly obvious that there’s lots more exciting things to come from this combination, and I lost count of how many nice OTTBs I saw at Red Hills alone, let alone how many I’ve seen this Spring already, let’s hear it for the OTTB! You can watch Lara and Shooby Do on cross country via her helmet cam here:
Many thanks to Lara for her time as always, and I look forward to charting their continued progress in the future. Go OTTBs and Go Eventing!
