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training and conditioning.
The majority of donated horses do make the “A-list”, as unsuitable horses are weeded out before they are brought to the main training station in Rock Creek Park.
Former champion timber runner Lone Star Lester was on the most suitable list for a while, until he developed a penchant for flipping over in the trailer. He did his act at the last Virginia Gold Cup where the mounted police were giving a special demonstration.
“Lone Star was a good field horse. His problem was the trailer. We trailer a lot so we couldn’t have Lone Star upside down in the trailer all the time. He is back with Bay Cockburn being a foxhunter,” said officer Ralph Pfister of Rock Creek Park’s division of the mounted police.
Pfister says they are looking for horses that, “will walk and stand quietly for long periods of time and that are reasonably sound and are not afraid.”
Afraid? They were brave on the course, weren’t they? Isn’t that enough? Not hardly.
To make the cut, a mounted police force horse needs to walk quietly over black plastic, have an umbrella opened
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