Trainer Larry Cappuccitti is surrounded by hundreds of horses every year. His family’s thoroughbred business, founded by father Gordon and his late mother Audre, is among the top stables in Canada, with plenty of champions and stakes winners having been bred on its farm in Caledon, Ontario.

Cappuccitti, however, has a soft spot for one of their homebreds, a lesser achiever on the track who has blossomed as an eventer and is set to go on the competitive road. Larry’s Dream, bred by the Cappuccitti family in 2005 and a winner just once on the track, has had Olympic-style training as he and his owner Meaghan Greenwood prepare for the Ontario Horse Trials later in 2014.

Cappuccitti placed Larry’s Dream with LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society soon after the gelding was “outdistanced” in a low claiming race at Fort Erie in 2009.

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