Jane* will never forget finding out what the actual price tag was on her favorite amateur horse. She’d flown to the Midwest to try a plain bay 11-year-old.
“He was an adequate mover, but he jumped just the way I rode. It was like magic, me getting on him,” Jane said. “I talked to my trainer in the aisle after I tried him and said, ‘He’s 11. He’s never shown on the East Coast. He’s not pretty. $50,000 seems like a lot,’ since that was the top end of my budget.
“He told me, ‘I’ve already tried to get the price down, and they’re firm at $50,000.’ ”
Irving E. Goldman
Horseman Irving E. Goldman of Franklin, Mich., died on Aug. 13. He was 90.
Mr. Goldman was born on April 30, 1923, to Harry and Bertha Goldman in Detroit.
He attended Michigan State University but was called to serve in World War II during his sophomore year. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry and saw combat in Europe.
Irene C. Acker
Horsewoman Irene C. Acker died of Alzheimer’s disease on Aug. 10 in Wilmington, N.C. She was 93.
Mrs. Acker was born in New York City on June 25, 1920, and lived there and on Long Island until the early 1970s when she moved to the Tryon, N.C., area for access to more hunting country.
It all started with a $25 donation from a para-equestrian. Or maybe it was the 17-year-old truck that set the wheels in motion. The whole thing might even go all the way back to the mare with a broken cannon bone.
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when and where Molly Martin began her journey with H Wrendition to the Markel/USEF Developing Horse Grand Prix National Championship (p. 40), but looking back on it now, it still seems a little surreal to the Redmond, Wash., trainer.
In his first big event back after ankle surgery, Boyd Martin rides Trading Aces to the top of the CIC***.
On the 10-hour drive from Cochranville, Pa., to the Richland Park Horse Trials in Richland, Mich., Boyd Martin had plenty of time to think about strategies for his three-star mount, Trading Aces.
While the gelding, also known as “Oscar,” is “the complete package,” according to Martin, they just teamed up in 2012.
The reigning Olympic champion earns two more gold medals but has to settle for bronze behind Germany and the Netherlands in the team competition.
When it comes to Valegro, Charlotte Dujardin has kept her cards close to her chest. After they took home team and individual gold for Great Britain at the Olympic Games in London last summer, rumors flew that the horse would be sold.
Charlotte Jorst scores two 10s on the stallion en route to the 6-year-old national title.
Anne Gribbons let her words hang in the air for a moment as Charlotte Jorst and her handsome chestnut stallion circled in front of the judges’ booth after their final ride.
“Thank you, Charlotte, that was a very nice ending to a very good test. In the trot we were really trying to find something to complain about, and after going over it again and again…” she trailed off. “We said, ‘OK, no complaints.’ It’s a 10.”
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