If you’d like to investigate pony racing or attend a meet, you can find details here at the Pony Racing Authority. This post relates to a chapter of the book If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of an Equine Obsession. If you have any questions to ask about the content, please fire away in the …
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Run for the Rosie
‘When Rosie Napravnik was 7 years old, she rode in her first pony race. “I was pretty much hooked to the thrill of the speed since then,” she said.’ On Saturday Rosie will become the seventh woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Read more about her here and watch her in …
Schooling Over Fences
Willy Twiston-Davies (son of trainer Nigel) has just won the Foxhunters Chase over the National fences at Aintree at age 16 with the fittingly named Baby Run. I last saw Willy in action at the 2007 Charles Owen pony racing championships at the Liverpool course, where he was riding a 13.1hh pony called Sparky Boy. …