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So home he came, to a virtual “population explosion” of horses. “He was big and pretty, so I decided to sell him at the Fasig-Tipton sales at Timonium,” Mrs. Rogers said, adding “When that hammer came down, my heart was breaking. He was my baby!”
The ensuing period in Imperial Mom’s history remains shadowy. Somewhere in North Carolina, he was shown and possibly evented. “But apparently his stride was so long that he couldn’t do the distances and comers in the indoor arenas/’ Mrs. Rogers related.
Enter Bill Wofford, the doit-yourself Kentucky horseman who piloted 1987 Virginia Gold Cup winner Ozymandias. “I traded another horse for him. He was in horse shows and would bounce one-strides; that’s why I took him sight unseen,” he remembered.
Wofford smelled a timber prospect. “We started schooling him at speed, and he was a magnificent jumper, flawless.
“Then we took him down to the track and he flipped over a couple of times. We got him over that, and then he started balking in the bam. ”
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