Zito horse ‘is off’ to next career
When Palmer’s Approach was born into the top-tier racing stables of Kim and Nick Zito in 2005, he had only two good legs to stand on. Fortunately, the “scrawny chestnut” with a bone cyst in the right stifle and a fracture in his left knee had many two-legged friends to lean on. Beginning with the Zitos themselves, both outspoken opponents of horse slaughter, the couple balked at suggestions they euthanize the animal, and sought the opinion of Dr. Scott Palmer. Palmer, for whom the horse was eventually named, treated the horse over the next year at the New Jersey Equine […]
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Blogging for Dixie
Stat Box Racing name: Dixie Rumble Sire: Richter Scale Dam: Dixie Fever Foal date: 2003 People meet their spouses online, find new homes and careers online, so it wasn’t a giant leap that equestrian Catherine Viverette met and fell in love with her new horse—online. Reading a day-to-day blog about the life of ex-racehorse Thoroughbred Dixie Rumble, Viverette came to know his personality—he needs open space and a run-in stall and he loves to foxhunt above all other disciplines— and, before she could discover if he also enjoys ‘long walks on the beach,’ Viverette was daydreaming about what it would […]
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They save horses
It all started with a beat-up filly named Gracie. Her ears broken, her tail amputated, the horse came limping into Jennifer Carnahan’s life nine years ago. Although she didn’t live very long after her rescue from abusive owners, her memory inspires Jennifer Carnahan and husband Richard to work two jobs a piece to save and rehabilitate other horses who have run out of luck. “We started rescuing horses by accident,” Carnahan says. “When Gracie came to us, she had been severely abused. We provided medical care, and got her on her way into a new home, but the neurological damage […]
