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we were close enough to have students. The lesson program made money,” during the stable’s critical first year. Success in the breeding shed also helped. More than half of their last year’s income resulted from stud fees. The Clarks stand a gray Thoroughbred stallion, Sunshine Rob, from the Native Dancer/Dancer’s Image line, and a black Shire stallion, King’s Saxon, at stud.
But, buying and selling horses really paved the way for the stable’s redirection. After three or four years of serious networking, “getting to know who to talk to,” about what, and how, Clark established the connections needed to take racehorses from the track and retrain them into hunters and jumpers.
“I do what everybody else does,” said Clark. “Fifty percent of what we sell are hardship cases — horses whose careers ended before they got started” because they lacked speed. “People know that if we take these horses, we will find good homes for them. And dealing in high end horses, you’ve got to have connections. It’s a big investment in time.”
At McDonald’s suggestion, the stable acquired a handful of talented point-to-point prospects and began training them for local races. Sandbagged placed second in
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