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earnings placed him on the North American Top 100 Rankings list in 2014 and 2015. In his last season of racing, which was 2018, he ran five times, winning twice (Old Hickory Stakes at Gulfstream and Salvator Mile Stakes G3 at Monmouth Park) and never placing below fourth. “He had a very lucrative career on the track and his owners gave him a full year off where he just hung out with the yearlings,” Napravnik said. “Of course those yearlings ate his tail down to the last tail bone and it took over a year to grown back to a respectable length,” she said laughing. Page McKenney took to foxhunting quickly and did well at the Mega-Makeover in the Field Hunter division, for the most part. “He couldn’t have been more perfect the first day and was so brilliant in the mock hunt till the very end,” she said, adding that he got a bit im- patient and bucked a little at the very end. Tis knocked them down to third place in
the class but Page McKenney walked away with the 2020 Iron Horse Award, sponsored by MidAtlantic Horse Rescue, for the highest- scoring Makeover “Iron Horse” (horses who were foaled in 2010 or earlier). As for Napravnik’s third entry, the Maryland-
bred mare Crazy Bernice, Napravnik said, “she takes her dressage very seriously but has a bit of performance anxiety.” Te 2013 Outflanker
mare out of Smart Gossip by Smart Strike end- ed up in 47th place in the Dressage class. Te mare was bred Pam Michael, and Napravnik says she is not worried at all about the mare’s potential because they have already competed successfully at First Level and are schooling Second Level movements. “Never in my life would I have thought of things like dressage medals in my world of racing and jumping tim- ber but this is the horse that I’m looking to get my Bronze [Medal] scores with,” she said. Napravnik, who has participated in these
makeovers several times, noted that this year seemed particularly special with many more high quality horses. “Te quality of horses and the level of training presented was heads above previous years,” she said. “It really is the happi- est horse show on Earth and I highly encour- age others to do it.”
O’Dwyer’s Three-peat
Maryland trainer Allison O’Dwyer considers herself an event rider. It is in dressage, however, that O’Dwyer has now earned her third RRP Makeover title. Her win this year came aboard the Louisiana-bred gelding Kubo Cat. Te 2016 chestnut gelding is by D’Wildcat and out of Golden Diva by Gold Fever. He did not have the longest career on the track earning $24,895 in 16 starts over the course of two sea-
Allison O’Dwyer earned her third Makeover Dressage division title with her 2021 win on Kubo Cat.
sons. Although he finished second five times and third four times, he never won a race before being retired. O’Dwyer found him through a reseller in Kentucky she had heard good things about. “I saw his photos and thought ‘that’s a really nice looking horse’,” she said, adding that over the years of working with off-the-track-Tor- oughbreds, she has learned to trust her eye. She purchased Kubo Cat without ever seeing him in person. “I sent a friend to look him over and she
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