I think he’s won in all three rings.
I believe he also won some derbies with Hunter or her mom. Or maybe with both of them.
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This article from 2015 talks about some of his hunter wins: https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/behind-stall-door-any-given-sunday/
It also mentions that he has some babies running around. I’m curious what they are up to now…
ETA: Here is one, RF Redfern. What a cool mare. https://eventingnation.com/ema-klugman-coming-soon-to-a-courthouse-or-horse-trial-near-you/
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That was pretty darn interesting to see. Thanks for posting it!
I had to laugh at this line from the article about the event horse, which basically sums up all our activities in a nutshell:
“Buying a horse is not a good business decision, but it is a way of being part of the joy of horse ownership.”
Does anyone know what the RF prefix stands for on the event horse?
It looks like there are at least 26 horses by Any Given Sunday recorded with USEF. And there could certainly be a lot more that just don’t have their breeding listed. Some of them have very cute names involving days of the week.
From clicking on just a few of their results, it looks like they run the gamut from adult and amateur hunters to horses that are winning in the 1.30 jumpers. And it looks like the Holloways still own some of them.
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It’s an owner prefix that I usually associate with Marilyn Little but not positive if it’s hers or if she just gets a lot of RF horses.
You may also remember it from “RF Amber Eyes”, who ran Jersey Fresh then showed up in the greens a month later at Devon with Kelley F.
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That is very funny and apt! I didn’t look on USEF, just HorseTelex and searched one of the more easily identifiable names. Love the idea that others have a play on other days of the week. It makes sense that for as versatile as he was, his offspring would follow suit!
Ah, yes. Thanks.
I was thinking maybe bred by Redfield, but you’re probably right.
As I recall, they changed the name on Amber Eyes, and then I think I actually crossed paths with that horse in Florida a year or two later with the new owner.
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A few examples listed by him with USEF are:
Come Monday
Ruby Tuesday
Pleasant Valley Sunday
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RF is from Marilyn Little’s parents’ farm, Raylyn Farms, which was a sales and breeding farm she and her mother Lynne ran until a couple of years ago, IIRC.
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Yes, I think that one ended up as Commentary… Or was it Fonteyn?
That’s right, thank you.
And yes, Amber Eyes became “Commentary”.
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Apparently both.
I hope the horse got to keep the same barn name so she didn’t get confused. Lol.
As I recall, the horse turned out to be sort of indirectly famous for that turn of events (so to speak), since I think the green rules were rewritten after that episode.
I sort of think through the cobwebs of my brain that maybe the horse just did the Derby at Devon, which was fine under the existing rules at that time.
But then I think she did the greens at another show, possibly Upperville, which caused a bit of a kerfuffle based on her competitive record as an event horse.
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That may be correct… think she flew under the radar until the article about the Devon derby came out. Also remember some bone picking because she was showing as a 2nd Year Green horse (back when that meant their 2nd year at 3’6") and how she might actually be eligible for that, even as a preliminary eventer.
Any given Sunday babies are notoriously difficult.
We have a horse by Any Given Sunday at our barn, and it’s a really nice horse. Very talented and forgiving, and he looks just like his father.
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The discussion of Any Given Sunday reminded me of another great horse Don Stewart trained who was very successful for a very long time.
Lyle was grand champion in the junior hunters at the National Horse Show when he was 20.
https://horsesdaily.com/article/lyle-is-grand-with-taylor-sutton-at-alltech-national-horse-show/
https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/show-hunter-horse-year-lyle/
