OTTB - Roger's Story [04:09]
Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use. Hey everyone! As promised, here is Roger's video time-line. It starts back in Feb of this year (2011) when we had the first ride. This was after we'd had him for a month or so. We got him as a scraggly 7 year old, head to toe in rain scald, and three days out from ending up at the market, and lord only knows if he was to end up as dog meat :( So my good friend Georgie rescued him, we bought him together and started all the hard work. She did hours upon hours of groundwork, and I did the ridden work. He was completely green, had no steering whatsoever , but we could both see he had unbelievable potential, so we gave him a go. Little by little he improved, obviously there was a lot more that we did with him then what's in the video, but we started to get him round, canter leads, and get him jumping. WHAT A JUMP he had on him, my god! I have never been on a horse with such a ping, and not only was he fun to ride, but he was safe as well, having never refused the whole time we had him. We took him out to adult rider's club, a dressage show, and more jumping days than you can poke a stick at and started to have a lot of fun with him ...
Tags: ottb, tb, thoroughbred, race horse, slaughter, rescue, show jumper, sj, EFA, eventer, Katie Rode
Grand National course flyover [02:49]
Tags: Aintree, Grand National, Horse racing, Days out, tourism
Myer Ladies Day 2010 [03:34]
The fashion stakes off the course match the great racing on course for one of the great days out during autumn, Myer Ladies Day
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Lester Piggott Royal Academy Breeders' Cup Mile 1990 [01:57]
Lester Piggott Royal Academy Breeders' Cup Mile 1990 The triumphant return of the 54-year-old Lester Piggott, just 12 days out of retirement. Even for an 11-time champion jockey and nine-time Derby winner, it does not get much better than this. Years on, Piggott held firm to the assertion that Royal Academy's victory in the Mile for his old friend Vincent O'Brien was a "dream come true". Piggott rarely used such language.
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