I was so pleased to catch up with Lara Borson Knight who’d travelled up from Nashville to Cincinnati for the Area 8 annual meeting, because after admiring her horse Shooby Do at the Hagyard Midsouth Team Challenge when he won the Preliminary 3 Day division last autumn I’d made a mental note to talk to her for EN, and then, typically, promptly forgotten all about it! While watching the DVD’s as part of the Mary King “virtual clinic” I discovered that Leah Snowden and her husband bred and raced Lara’s horse, and having thought what a long way Lara had travelled to the AGM, I then discovered she now makes almost that same journey every week as head trainer at the Makers Mark Secretariat Center at the Kentucky Horse Park – the eventing world is a small world indeed!
You can find more information on the Makers Mark Secretariat Center here. To steal a quote from Dorothy Crowell, who adopted two horses from them last year and proudly calls herself a Thoroughbred snob, “Nothing reaches so profoundly into my soul as the gleam in that exceptional Thoroughbred’s eye. The MMSC provides unique access to some of the best athletes in the equine industry, and does an amazing job both in preparing horses for their second careers and in matchmaking. I am truly pleased with the two horses I adopted (from Darley Stud originally) and I look forward to future partnerships”.
I can’t say enough nice things about the thoroughbred, and I’ve got lots more stories to bring you about OTTB success stories, so depending on your taste, that’s either something you can look forward to, or alternatively you can consider that fair warning! Go OTTB’s, all TB adoptions, and Go Eventing!
