Retired Racehorses

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From the blog by Susan Salk entitled Off-Track Thoroughbreds.com
Link to the story below is: http://offtrackthoroughbreds.com/2010/09/25/riddle-cometshows-ex-racehorse-potential/
The horse profiled is a New York-bred who finished his racing career at Finger Lakes.
Riddle: Comet a star among ex-racehorses
By Susan Salk on September 25, 2010
Photo by Mike McNally. Reprinted, permission by Becky Holder
Courageous Comet was no Secretariat on the racetrack.
But now well into his second career, the gorgeous gray horse seen bounding across
dozens of You Tube videos—neatly clearing stadium jumps and enthusiastically
throwing himself over water obstacles— has nailed it.
The off-track Thoroughbred has been to the Beijing Olympics, and recently took third
at the 2010 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. This month he swept the American
Eventing Championship and is to compete at the famed World Equestrian Games, held
in the Kentucky Horse Park beginning this weekend.
As he gallops his way across eventing challenges, those who seek to raise awareness of
the talent and potential of ex-racehorses hold up Courageous Comet as a powerful
example.
World-renowned Kentucky veterinarian practice Rood & Riddle instituted the
Thoroughbred Sport Horse of the Year award this year, and Courageous Comet was the
first recipient.