Cubbie Girl North went from receiving praise from an Olympic rider to trying to kill us both, all in less than a week.
Whatever Thoroughbreds do is to the extreme. When the 4-year-old bay filly that I’m hoping to compete with at the 2020 Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover has been good, it’s really good, like “the-chemistry-between-Ben-Affleck-and-Matt-Damon” good. But, when she’s been bad during this one-year journey from racehorse to eventer, it’s really bad, like “being-on-an-episode-of-Jerry-Springer” bad.
As opposite as the best and worst moments seem to be, they actually reveal the same thing. Cubbie tries her heart out. Below is a glimpse at one month of our journey from mid-May to mid-June, which also marks the one-year anniversary of when she finished a four-race career at Fairmount Park in Illinois.
How do I, an announcer that jumped in the deep end learning to ride horses by eventing on OTTBs, deal with it all?
