![]() Stevie Wonder Girl was given a perfect ride by Dane Nelson, who saved ground going around the first turn while in heavy traffic, and then taking her off the rail and into the three-path down the backstretch and into the clear. What Kettleson did see was a tremendous effort from a horse that her husband bought for just $1,000 from breeders Al and Barb Side at the 2020 Alberta Yearling Sale when he was the only one who put his hand up in the air to make a bid. It’s always nice to know that your rider is confident. If you’re nervous it’s because you’re green.’ It helped to hear him say that. I was nervous and I did ask him if he ever got nervous and he said ‘Never. We just talked about essentially nothing. ![]() While they walked together on horseback, Alivia and Dane talked. She was a hundred per cent sound.”Īlivia ponied Stevie Wonder Girl in the Oaks on post parade and then in the long minutes before leading her to the starting gate. I also knew that the mile and a sixteenth wasn’t going to be a factor. I gallop her and I knew she was as good as she could be. Kettleson was quietly confident about Stevie Wonder Girl’s chances in the Oaks. Horse racing needs more stories like this.” If it can happen to me it can happen to anybody. I hate being in the spotlight but this is a story that needs to be out there. “One thousand dollar horse wins a lot of money,” said Alivia, 36, who has only been training on her own for three years. It is about hope and faith and castles in the air. It is about that horse winning $30,000 for Kettleson and his trainer wife, Alivia, in the Alberta Oaks, one of the seven $50,000 Fall Classic stakes on September 10th at Century Mile. It is about a horse, Stevie Wonder Girl, that nobody other than Todd Kettleson wanted. It is also a magical story that anyone who has ever owned a race horse or has hoped to get one can understand. This is a story about a dream: a fairy tale come true. Guarantee for the horses’ needs and the loss of these animals due to economic defaults.Make no mistake. The type of abandonment covered in this reportage is that of the horses left behind, the failure to To guarantee for their care and of their loss due to economic fallout. The type of abandonments covered in this reportage are that of horses left behind, of the failure This project inquired into the link between the abandonment of horses and the economic crisis,ĭocumenting the conditions of the horses population, but also those of the men and women whoĪbandoned them due to negligence or foreclosure. The abandonment of horses is the fourth stray animals phenomenon in Italy after that of dogs, Since 2018, as a result of the economic crisis, the phenomenon of horse abandonment is widening and this year it has been calculated that about 8,000 horses have disappeared into thin air. The recent economic crisis has led to serious difficulties in supporting individuals and businesses caring for horses which were, consecutively, faced with grave economic problems (European Parliament, Strasbourg. Horses are also a status-symbol, so much so as to be often considered as tangible assets in the Horses are one of the animals most frequently found in mythologies, religions and folklore, equally as a symbol of power and freedom so much so that many men and women establish an emotionally totalizing relationship with them.
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