Racehorse to Showjumper to Police Horse - Lunar Rise Tonight on Thoroughbreds Are Go

Tara Madgwick - Sunday November 14

We’ve run several stories on Breednet highlighting the adventures of a remarkable thoroughbred that was born at Arrowfield Stud with Caroline Searcy taking us into NSW Mounted Police headquarters at Surry Hills for a look into the next chapter of his life.

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Troop Horse Martin with Tara Madgwick, who did the retrain on the horse with her two children Jack and Jasmine.

An expensive Inglis Easter yearling bred and sold by Arrowfield, who became a successful Group III winning racehorse / turned more than handy showjumper for the Daybreak Farm team, Lunar Rise is now enjoying like in his new role as Troop Horse Martin in the NSW Mounted Police unit.

Click here to read Living the Life, the story so far for Lunar Rise from November 2019.

In March 2020, just before the first lockdown, Lunar Rise (our lovely Lenny!) left Daybreak Farm after two years of being retrained and competed by Jack and Jasmine Haynes on the Thoroughbred Sport Horse Jumping circuit.


He was accepted for a three month trial with the NSW Mounted Police which went so well he was later offered a permanent role and given his new official troop horse name of Martin in honour of the late Sergeant Dick Martin.

Troop Horse Martin gets ready go on patrol!

Sergeant Dick Martin was a much loved member of the NSW Mounted Police Unit for many years and was a great lover of thoroughbreds, who worked in racing and breeding before progressing into a policing career, so the name is a fitting one.

Some horses have special qualities that set them apart and Lunar Rise aka Martin (still known as Lenny in the stables) is one of those horses, so if you see him out and about do say hello and give him our love.


 

Thoroughbreds are Go screens tonight on Sky Thoroughbred Central at 7.30pm.


 

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