Owner Name: Jessica Bortner-Harris/Susan Massaro
Farm or Organization Name: Rocky Start Stables, LLC
Address
Thurmond, NC 28683
Website: www.rockystartstables.com
Trainer Name: Jessica Bortner-Harris
Trainer Classification
Professional (USEF Classification)
One or more video links of trainer riding
https://www.youtube.com/user/RockyStartStables
Trainer Bio(*)
Include competition resume in disciplines of choice, experience training horses, and work with Thoroughbreds inside and outside the racing industry
I am a CIC*** rider (with hopes of doing more!). Win the War, JC Little Jitterbug, is my first upper level event horse, and I bought him off the track as a 4 year old and brought him along myself. I have been getting OTTB's regularly for over 15 years. I am a professional rider and trainer and consider the OTTB my specialty. I retrain them to be correct and on the aids, so they can go on to do whatever discipline makes them happy.
I was one of the trainers for the 2013 RRP Symposium with PrettyHippHopHotty.
Identify any trainers or instructors that you expect to work with as you prepare your horse for the Makeover
Bonnie Mosser
Discipline(s) that you expect to exhibit
Eventing
Horse Info
Jockey Club Name: Walk Softly
Year of Birth: 2008
Date of Last Race: I believe it was in November of 2014
Last Owner: Herringswell Stables
Describe the process by which you acquired the horse and any information you have about its transition from racing
Sue Kenny from Herringswell called me to ask if I would help them get the mare out of a bad situation. They had bought her back from a trainer and as they were worried she would end up at auction due to not running well in claiming races. They followed her career and really liked the mare, so they wanted her to end up in a good place. She came to me, and she's been having down time ever since. She's learning to be a horse and go outside and not having to be on a racing training schedule.
Describe any work under saddle that the horse has received since racing
None
