While Manitoba’s greatest race horse of all time, Escape Clause, gets ready for motherhood in Japan, her baby sister in Manitoba has recovered from a life-threatening injury suffered in a lightning storm in Kentucky and is getting the feel of a saddle for the first time.

“Filly is doing well,” Sherisse Ziprick of Ziprick Thoroughbred breeding in Russell, Manitoba told The Insider after visiting her in the stable of Barry Arnason in Rosser, Manitoba. “She’s started under saddle and doing well. Just deciding on her name.”

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