I was lucky to enough to talk to three people, all connected, this weekend who each on their own would have made wonderful victims for one of my loooong interviews, but as they were packing up and getting ready to leave the Kentucky Horse Park for Maryland, we grabbed a few minutes to talk about the basics, and we’ll hopefully catch up again soon for a longer chat.
Molly Rosin is no stranger to Eventing Nation readers, and to most eventing aficionados, especially on the East Coast. Molly made the trip to Kentucky this past weekend to contest the CCI* on Cathy and Quinn Anderson’s Sprite, while Quinn, at 13 years old, was competing in her first big ‘away game’ on her rescue pony, Google.
Quinn’s mother, Cathy, has a wealth of eventing experience both riding and in an official capacity. Cathy is an FEI vet for many of the top events, as well as the owner of the Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber at the Fairhill Equine Therapy Center where Neville Bardos and Hoku spent so much time in recovery. Cathy was kind enough to juggle Sprite, and talk to me a little about the HBO and it’s benefits(“it’s not television..!”), and of course Sprite.
I’d like to thank Molly, Quinn and Cathy for their time, there’s never enough to spare at an event, and they were all three incredibly gracious about interrupting the packing-up of the trailer to stop and chat. Wishing Quinn a happy season fox-hunting, and Cathy good luck to her Fairhill connections in the Breeders Cup next weekend; she mentioned that several horses probably owed their extended season of racing up until November to stints in her Hyperbaric Chamber. Thank you to Molly for spotting and nurturing young talent, both in horses and humans, and best of luck over the winter with all your own horses. Whatever your winter plans may be, I hope they include Eventing Nation. Thanks for reading as always, go hunting, racing, and of course, eventing!
