RFR The Iceman at Mount Pleasant Meadows, Josh Ritschard up.
Very little about RFR The Iceman has been by the book.
The arresting gray Arabian adolescent defied analysis aback he was built-in with sabino overo arrangement and two acute dejected eyes categorical in black. He defied cartography to chase at a pari-mutuel venue, afresh aback he was done running, he defied carelessness to antithesis physically and emotionally into the horse he already was.
His owner/breeder Pamela Fullerton was aloof as defiant, continuing up for her horse on the clue and in the abandoned field, and eventually acquisition Stage 3 lung blight to brace her own equestrian career.
The Iceman was born, and resides today, at the Fullerton family's Resolute Farms in Athens, Wisc. Afford RFR Polar Star and dam I Ofthe Flame were both Resolute homebreds, with the antagonism claret advancing from his mother through broodmare afford Flaming Streak, who ran at the now-shuttered Bay Meadows.
I Ofthe Flame won one of nine starts at Mount Pleasant Meadows in axial Michigan, beneath the training of Pamela's son, Jason Fullerton. What fabricated her on-track career memorable, though, was her appropriate eye – atramentous a ablaze dejected that absolute her gray coat.
Fullerton, a retired authoritative law adjudicator and lawyer, knew she had article abnormal with I Ofthe Flame, and she was active in authoritative abiding her altered filly jumped through every authoritative bandage for allotment and recognition.
“When [I Ofthe Flame], who had one dejected eye was born, I alleged the [Arabian Horse Association] and said, 'Oh my God, what happened? I've got this Arabian filly with a dejected eye. Did the Appaloosa from bottomward the artery get in or something?'” Fullerton said. “They said, “No, one in maybe 25,000 has a dejected eye,' I asked if she could still be registered, and they said, 'Oh yeah, we claret blazon them. They're all DNA'd and everything. If she passes her DNA, we'll be blessed to annals her.'
“I asked if she was activity to canyon that on, and they said no,” Fullerton continued. “Then I talked to a geneticist in Michigan, and I asked if she was activity to canyon it on, and he said, “No, no. It's way too backward to canyon on. It aloof ancestor up already in a while.'”
Fullerton bred I Ofthe Flame to RFR Polar Star, a bounded best action horse from a Russian pedigree, rather abstruse for a avant-garde antagonism Arabian. The agriculturalist accustomed an adorable foal, but aback the filly opened his eyes, she accomplished she had a once-in-a-lifetime horse.
When the filly afford out and appear himself to be gray, The Iceman additionally apparent facial arrangement as admitting he had biconcave his adenoids and aperture abysmal in blush and white paint. Plenty of horses accept dejected eyes acquired by a bonfire aqueous over them, but The Iceman's artlessly atramentous eye-lining beatific Fullerton aback to the geneticists to accomplish abiding her filly was on the level.
Fullerton consulted Dr. D. Philip Sponenberg, one of the country's arch advisers in horse blush genetics, to actuate how a horse with such attenuate appearance came to be. The Iceman's Arabian claret was legitimate, but he still larboard the advisers puzzled.
“We had it activated by them, and they could not acquisition the gene that was causing it,” Fullerton said. “The accustomed gene that causes burst white, or sabino, in Arabians is the SB1 gene, and he is abrogating for that. Sponenberg accustomed that either it was a gene they had never baldheaded before, or that it was maybe article afterpiece to an overo gene because it was so altered in its patterning.
“I apperceive everybody says there's no such affair as an overo in Arabians,” she continued, “but that's Sponenberg adage it, not me.”
Wisconsin is far from a abundant arena in commendations to horse racing. It has no pari-mutuel tracks, and over a decade has anesthetized aback added than 20 Thoroughbred mares were bred there in a season. Arabian antagonism is on an alike bigger island. Fullerton was active in accepting the casual Arabian chase to Canterbury Park in Minnesota, but the abutting alternating accommodated was at Mount Pleasant.
With Lake Michigan in the way as the babble flies, accepting to the average of Michigan's Lower Peninsula takes over eight hours, either looping arctic through the Upper Peninsula and bottomward the Mackinac Bridge, or south through Chicago. The afar were immaterial to Fullerton for a adventitious to run her horses beneath her colors.
“We acclimated to accomplishment up the contest on Sunday night at bristles o'clock, bulk the horses, get in the truck, and go on a 10-hour chance up and over the [Mackinac] Bridge,” she said. “I'll acquaint you, at night, sometimes with the wind, that was a absolute absorbing acquaintance (across the bridge). You'd feel that old four-horse bivouac abaft you fluctuant a bit and affairs the truck, but it was annual it. I admired racing. It was my passion.”
“He is the best active beastly I accept anytime met, and he's competitive,” Fullerton said about The Iceman. “There are horses that aback you alpha training them, they don't get the game. They will run alongside the added horses, or they will run abaft the added horses, and no bulk of advancement with hands, or legs, or a crop will get them to move out of position. They do not accept that the bold is to bolt and surpass. Some of them apperceive it by aptitude – Iceman and Crescent do it by instinct.
“A lot of stallions absolutely anticipate they've got to assemblage the horses advanced of them. Not Iceman. He wants to be out in advanced saying, 'I'm arch you to safety. Aloof chase me.'”
The Iceman debuted at Mount Pleasant as a 4-year-old, antagonism as a homebred for Pamela and accomplished by Jason.
It wasn't as accessible as entering the gate. While Pamela went to assiduous lengths to vet out The Iceman's abiogenetic credentials, accepting the accustomed aggravate in the haystack meant starting from aboveboard one with a new, agnostic crowd.
“They said he doesn't accord there, he's not an Arabian,” she said. “There were a lot of bodies who said he's not a absolute Arabian because he had dejected eyes. I would say, 'Do you apperceive how connected Arabians accept been claret accounting and DNA testing? It's best than any added brand in the United States.'”
RFR The Iceman (#3) and Josh Ritschard in an Arabian chase at Mount Pleasant Meadows.
When he hit the clue in antagonism for the aboriginal time on July 18, 2010, The Iceman's dejected eyes and blush adenoids were far from the abandoned things that fabricated him angle out from the crowd. Facing a antagonism brand that's acceptable beneath like the archetypal contour of an Arabian and afterpiece to a abate Thoroughbred, The Iceman's baby size, ambrosial face, and abatement appendage were a throwback.
The Iceman ran fourth of six in his aboriginal start, finishing 24 1/4 lengths abaft the champ afterwards a afflicted beginning. He was eventually answer to third, but afterwards the chase was declared official.
The filly fabricated his additional and final alpha afterwards that ages on July 25. It was a added aggressive effort, with The Iceman breaking amid the advance runners, and eventually clearing into third, 5 1/4 lengths off the winner. Like his aboriginal start, The Iceman was answer to second, putting him on the lath in both of his career starts.
While antagonism was Fullerton's passion, it was difficult to accretion a ballast in the Mount Pleasant colony, area the track's best Arabian riders were usually announced for by the approved trainers. Swimming adjoin that current, commutual with fatigue over antagonism her obscurely-bred horse adjoin the French bloodlines that boss the breed's bend of the sport, led the Fullertons to booty their horses aback to Wisconsin.
Though they were no best amid the pari-mutuel ranks, The Iceman and Silver Crescent were not yet done with racing. The Fullertons took their Arabians to the Richland County Fairgrounds, about 130 afar south of Athens, in September 2010 to run Arabian-exclusive heats and open-breed races.
As apprehensive as Mount Pleasant Meadows was, the clue shone with the majesty of Churchill Downs on the aboriginal Saturday in May compared with the axial Wisconsin egg-shaped – small, tight, and afterwards balustrade or a accomplishment line. Starts were jog-ups fabricated official by a whistle, and the riders' stirrups captivated low about their mounts' ribs.
The Iceman raced alert that day, and assuredly got off the avoid at the fairgrounds, besting stablemate RFR Polar Reign in a bout chase with an absorbing rope-a-dope closing move.
The accustomed competitiveness of The Iceman shone through in that amplitude drive. His dejected eyes were alike brighter, and his aerial were pricked aerial as he drew abroad calmly from Polar Reign. Perhaps it wasn't as Fullerton planned, but for one lap in rural Wisconsin, the acceptable aptitude she saw from the adolescent horse in the acreage came through on the track.
In his added start, The Iceman was allotment of a four-horse acreage reuniting with Silver Crescent and Polar Reign. He took to the advance in that heat, but couldn't accumulate it, eventually finishing third to Silver Crescent.
That was the end of Fullerton's racetrack canicule for the time being, but her chance with The Iceman was aloof beginning.
RFR The Iceman, the baby abiogenetic agnate of a Honus Wagner baseball card, didn't become the racehorse Pamela Fullerton had imagined, but that was okay.
Even if he'd never run a aggressive step, The Iceman's two dejected eyes commutual with the horse's near-impossible sabino overo appearance gave Fullerton a accurate one-of-a-kind ability runner, appearance horse, and adolescent anticipation to adore for years to come.
Then, Fullerton begin out she had cancer.
Fullerton had her greatest action yet on her hands, squaring off with what would eventually become Stage 3 lung cancer, aloof as she had her two ex-racehorses able to attempt at a civic level: The Iceman and RFR Silver Crescent. With her bloom acceptable her primary concern, Fullerton retired from both the judge's bank and the saddle, and put The Iceman up for sale.
It was a agonizing accommodation for Fullerton, who had developed a band with the affable adolescent she aloft and took to the races. Times weren't accessible at the track, but that abandoned served to accomplish the brace tighter as they aimed to move into the abutting appearance of their lives.
“During morning works at the track, a big Thoroughbred absent his rider, careened into us battery at a abounding gallop, and agape us off our feet,” Fullerton said. “I lay abashed with the wind agape out of me while Icey accolade to his anxiety and took off for the advanced accessible aboideau arch into the backside.
“I ample we'd be advantageous to abduction him in one of the barns, hopefully afore he fought with addition stallion,” she continued. “Then suddenly, there was this big blush and white adenoids hitting me abandoned somewhat acclaim in the face and alarming hot air into my broad mouth. We limped off the clue together.”
RFR The Iceman (#3) puts a arch in advanced during an Arabian chase at Mount Pleasant Meadows.
Fullerton was anon contacted by Elizabeth Masters, who bought the horse at his ample allurement amount afterimage unseen, and afterwards a pre-purchase veterinary exam. Masters said she planned to use The Iceman for obstacle orienteering, based at her Aguanga, Calif., ranch.
Masters' operation was broadly accustomed and absolved no amount for its facilities, apartment added than 100 horses, so Fullerton accustomed the favorable deal, alike if it was a little too easy. However, Fullerton's accomplishments in law accomplished her if she acquainted like she won the transaction that handily, she bare to tie up loopholes to assure herself and the horse.
Fullerton added a above article to the auction arrangement advertence if the client could not abundantly affliction for the beastly during the aboriginal two years afterwards purchase, for any reason, buying would backslide aback to Fullerton's Resolute Farms, and he would acknowledgment to Wisconsin afterwards attention for acquirement price, training, allowance and board, or any added post-transaction considerations that may accept occurred. Essentially, if a distinct affair went alongside with Masters, the horse went home and she would be larboard captivation the bag.
“I anticipation she'd never assurance it,” Fullerton said. “She aloof active it as if it were nothing.”
That article acceptable adored The Iceman's life.
About eight months afterwards the horse accustomed in California, Masters was on the run from the federal government for embezzling $5.74 actor from her employer, the accouterment aggregation Achievement Apparel Group, over the advance of nine years.
As the company's banking controller, Masters abounding her acutely bottomless war chest by autograph added than 700 checks from the aggregation above her own bacon and depositing them in her claimed account.
Masters was accursed by the aggregation in 2011 afterwards her bogus was discovered. Afterward, she aloft money to accumulate her agronomical in business by allurement for donations beneath the guise of alleviative her late-stage cancer, a affirmation that board afterwards begin no affirmation to be true. By that time, though, a affectionate horse association that didn't apperceive the abounding adventure had already accustomed her bags of dollars.
“I acquainted so apologetic for her that at one point I alike discussed repaying at atomic allotment of his acquirement amount to this poor, addled adolescent woman,” Fullerton said. “It was all a con.”
When her counterfeit banking hail-Mary didn't pan out, Masters asleep her assets and confused to New Mexico, area she was alive as an accountant afore actuality arrested for her annexation in California and bedevilled to nine years in prison.
The government bedeviled aggregate it could from Masters to antithesis out her debt, from the clothes in her drawers to the drawers themselves. The about $500,000 generated from piecing afar the operation hardly put a cavity into the millions that Masters owed, and abounding of the horses on the acreage were broadcast to accomplishment groups.
The Iceman, however, remained on the property. While the added horses did not accept a dollar amount aerial abundant to accumulate agriculture until they could be sold, The Iceman's altered abiogenetic architecture fabricated him an asset. The abandoned botheration was, aback the admiral raided the estate, Fullerton said they larboard with aggregate to augment and affliction for The Iceman except for The Iceman himself.
“Icey was the abandoned adolescent at the acreage and none of the accomplishment places would booty him,” Fullerton said. “He's at this abode all alone. They've appear in and confiscated the hay, the feed. I had addition activity in from a boondocks 15 afar abroad every day to augment this horse, while I'm angry with the U.S. Attorney General and California Attorney General over who owns this horse.”
Fullerton dug in with the Attorneys General, claiming the above article she placed in the auction arrangement with Masters overrode any appropriate Uncle Sam had to the horse. Meanwhile, The Iceman was in abreast on the California farm, and went about a ages with basal animal or equine acquaintance in a baby paddock.
Fullerton was assuredly able to altercation The Iceman aback to Wisconsin, but he alternate to Resolute Acreage a abundant altered horse from aback he had left.
“The actuality that he had been there abandoned for 35-40 canicule angry his personality into a snake,” Fullerton said. “He aloof hated everybody. He'd absent 100 to 120 pounds. He was absolutely attractive ragged.
“My son, Jason who is a big guy, was walking by his paddock one day, and Icey affective him by the shoulder, best him up, befuddled him, and tossed him,” she continued. “If Jason hadn't had on assorted layers of winter clothing, I alternate to anticipate what would accept happened.”
Fullerton was still grappling with blight – not a fabricated blight – and aback faced a new attempt with a once-friendly horse who she had fought to save that had become abandoned from neglect. Accepting The Iceman aback to concrete and affecting sea-level was activity to be a challenge.
Fortunately, about a anniversary afterwards his altercation with Jason, The Iceman began to appearance signs of acclimating to his surroundings. Perhaps the band Fullerton had congenital with the horse was stronger than she had thought.
“Every time I went out there, I would allocution and allocution to him, and he would be about angry up and bottomward the paddock,” Fullerton said. “I was alive on the added ancillary of the fence, and all of a sudden, I could feel him abaft me, and I heard this huge sigh.
“I angry around, and he was aback – aback to actuality himself, aback to actuality the horses that was ridden in ability contest by a 13-year-old, aback to actuality the horse that bodies would ride beside for 25 afar and never apperceive he was a adolescent aback they were on a adult in heat,” she continued. “It was an amazing transformation. It was physical. You could see it in his posture, in his eyes. Now, he's aloof our boy again.”
With anybody aback on the aforementioned page, The Iceman got aback to work. Beneath Jason's training, the baby adolescent hit the ability circuit, aggressive in bound ambit contest in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota.
The Iceman's consummate accomplishment in ability antagonism came during the 2012 Northern Highland ride in Conover, Wisc., area he exhausted seven rivals in a 25-mile race. He raced six times in 2012 and 2013 according to American Ability Ride Conference records, and accomplished third or bigger on four occasions, sometimes with Jason in the saddle himself.
When his ability career came to a close, The Iceman got adequate at Resolute Acreage as a stallion. Fullerton said he passes on at atomic one dejected eye in at atomic bisected his foals, behindhand of the blush of the mare.
In time, Fullerton got some added acceptable news. Her blight was in remission. Bristles years later, Fullerton was accustomed a apple-pie bill of health, and The Iceman was set to be allotment of her comeback.
“Now, they acquaint me I'm home free, so we accept spent the aftermost four months accepting aback in appearance as a business and as a ancestors to restart these guys abutting season,” she said in aboriginal 2018. “We aloof began dressage training, because we're to alpha assuming as a action horse this bounce beneath saddle.
“Right away, they accept they're aback at work,” Fullerton continued. “It's aloof such a blessed acquaintance to be on a horse that says, 'Oh, acknowledge God I'm aback alive again.' We already accept them entered in the bounce action horse shows in southern Wisconsin, so we're activity to accept some fun. We're activity to booty some horses that are accurate achievement horses bottomward there.”
The Iceman's canicule of activity fast are abaft him, but Pamela and Jason said they still saw racetrack abeyant in the horse, in the anatomy of his foals. The Iceman and Silver Crescent were the aftermost horses raced beneath the Resolute colors at a pari-mutuel track, now a decade ago, and the crawling is starting to appear back.
The better affair continuing in their way is geography. With Mount Pleasant Meadows connected gone, forth with its replacement, Detroit-area Hazel Park Raceway, there are no adjacent options for the Wisconsin family.
Still, this has not absolutely beat the Fullertons from their dream of antagonism foals by The Iceman. Aback this adventure was aboriginal appear in 2018, Jason had aloof become acquainted of the Heritage Arabian Antagonism Club, a antagonism alignment founded in 2015 that offers a all-around alternation of contest for Arabians of acceptable bloodlines – bloodlines that breeze through The Iceman.
“When Jason heard about HARC he aboriginal anticipation of RFR The Ice Maiden, Iceman's babe out of RFR Morning Rain, Silver Crescent's half-sister,” Pamela said in 2018. “She is currently actuality accomplished in aggressive aisle and dressage. It wouldn't booty a lot to about-face her into a accomplished chase mare.”
The Ice Maiden, afresh a 6-year-old, didn't accept her sire's acute dejected eyes, but she's got his leg, if not a little more, and his aggressive spirit. She never fabricated the racetrack, but Arabian antagonism alternate to Arapahoe Park aftermost year afterwards a aperture and there are abiding circuits for the brand in Texas, Delaware, and California. If The Iceman's foals abide to appearance that blaze to compete, and if their aptitude makes it annual the travel, there are places for them to run.
Fitting then, that The Iceman's foals would be the artefact of a acreage with the chat “resolute” appropriate in the name. That aforementioned spirit – that resolution – helped The Iceman and Fullerton acclimate storms that would accept bankrupt weaker contemporaries. Now, they'll all move advanced calm to abide proving that RFR The Iceman is added than aloof a appealing face.
This adventure was originally appear in 2018. Reprinted and adapted with permission from Arabian Accomplishment Line.
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