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Every Thoroughbred Deserves a Chance to Win at Life

We’re counting down the days to the 2016 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, organized by the Retired Racehorse Project (RRP), a nonprofit dedicated to the placement of ex-racehorses in second careers, and sponsored by Thoroughbred Charities of America. You can join thousands of others who believe that every Thoroughbred deserves a chance to win at…

October 20, 2016
Tapping OTTB Potential: Retraining Thoroughbreds Is a Family Affair at TSB

Over the last 20 years I have ridden a number of OTTBs (off-the-track Thoroughbreds), but most recently I have been riding an absolutely stunning and incredibly earnest gelding named “Rocky,” owned by Gayle Davis—a friend and fellow event rider. This enormous chestnut won his Advanced division at Millbrook Horse Trials with US Olympian and TSB…

July 26, 2016
Check Out the “Painting Racehorse” and New Vocations Racehorse Adoption on the Today Show!

You may have seen our previous post about Metro Meteor, the “painting racehorse,” and how his exploration of his artistic side is helping to fund New Vocations Racehorse Adoption (CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY). Metro Meteor made his primetime television debut this morning as he was profiled on the Today Show (CLICK HERE TO…

April 9, 2013
Thoroughbreds in Dressage in the NYT–Reminding Us All of Their Great Potential as Equine Athletes…As Well as the Great Benefits of Dressage Training

On June 15, “The Rail” horse-racing blogger Leslie Knauf described how two sports perhaps perceived far apart on the equestrian spectrum—racing and dressage—have in fact long been interwoven. “The highly contained nature of dressage,” Knauf writes, “with its collection and extension of the horse’s three gaits — walk, trot and canter — within a relatively…

June 19, 2012
TSB Author Anna Morgan Ford Featured in Practical Horseman’s Two-Part Series on Retraining Ex-Racehorses

Anna Morgan Ford, Program Director at New Vocations Racehorse Adoption and author of BEYOND THE TRACK (with equine journalist Amber Heintzberger) is featured in a two-part series in the July and August issues of Practical Horseman magazine. The articles, by Kim F. Miller, are based on the techniques Anna uses to prepare off-the-track Thoroughbreds (OTTBs)…

June 16, 2011
Kentucky-Derby-Winning Owner’s Rant Against Drugs in US Horse Racing Reminds Us of the Need to Conscientiously Transition Off-the-Track Thoroughbreds to a Life “Off” Steroids

It was with keen interest I scanned the piece in the New York Times yesterday on Team Valor International chief Barry Irwin’s blunt criticism of US Thoroughbred trainers. “At the heart of Irwin’s broad swipe at trainers,” writes Joe Drape, “was the use of medication — drugs given to keep horses running, to make them…

May 13, 2011