All Seasons Equine Veterinary Practice LLC
Emily K Dean DVM
207 Boulevard
Pelham NY 10803
(603)973-9900
MyNameIsSayGo- aka- Phil’s Story
July 2018- I needed to drop a tube of Banamine off at the rescue known as 13 hands Rescue Inc. Driving up the driveway in the July of 2018 there was a bay gelding in turnout along the way. He caught my eye-show stoppingly handsome in my opinion. I ran into Ramiro Lopez, the man in charge of the care of the rescues, and asked who he belonged to. He indicated that the rescue had been called to take him and he had recently arrived.
I learned that he had been at Monmouth Racetrack in New Jersey, and that he had been injured. The people had decided they did not want to train him any longer for fear of further injury, and were looking for a rescue not associated with racing. They found 13 Hands Rescue Inc. and I found Saygo – as they were calling him at the time. As Saygo did not just roll off the tongue, I started calling him Phil. A short, succinct regular name for such a handsome guy.
After doing some research as to his injuries and expected recovery, I elected to sponsor him for a year while he rehabbed and learned to be a horse again. Eventually time moved on, he was sound, and the rescue was moving north. It was time for Phil to start training to be a riding horse.
As I have time constraints and had not been riding regularly for years, I researched people who train off the track thoroughbreds. My brother introduced me to Tom and Clare Mansman of Pacific Farms Inc. They train these young thoroughbreds regularly, and do it in a quiet all around way. He arrived in Virginia in June of 2019. For the next year he was educated in all the regular manners, under tack and regular life. He trail rode, did some ring work, took lessons with the late, great Jimmy Wofford (who liked him quite a bit!) and met cows. (He wanted to play with those cows so badly!)
I had been planning on bringing him home the spring of 2020, but Covid hit and it seemed smarter and safer to leave him in Tom and Clare’s competent hands. He spent the seasons doing low level events and small shows, getting some mileage before he arrived in New York. May of 2021 arrived, and Linda Anderson Mulhern trucked me down to VA and we picked him up. He traveled like a champ and hit New York relaxed, calm and cool.
He has been home for almost exactly two years. We have been working diligently on our flat work, getting more comfortable over the jumps, trail riding and of course- those awesome thoroughbred gallops. He’s quirky and opinionated on the ground. An absolute blast to ride.
And really it all started at 13 Hands Rescue Inc. and a tube of Banamine. With a big thank you to Ramiro Lopez and MaryLou Tortorella of 13 Hands Rescue Inc.. And unending gratitude to Pacific Farms Inc. of Tom and Clare Mansman for making him a safe, well educated horse for an adult amateur. Linda Anderson Mulhern for bringing him home, as well as carting us over to Cedar Lodge Farm in Stamford CT for lessons with William McGuinness- but that’s a story for a different day.
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