Zito horse is off to new career
From the Off-TrackThoroughbreds archives. This story was first published June 6, 2010. 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 […]
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And in the end, love comes to throw-away horse
Jessica Hufford’s venerable ex-race mare Byline Story was as spunky as ever. At age 26, older than Jessica herself, the mare had earned her time as a pasture ornament: a life of leisurely grass grazing and meandering walks was her reward. And now her devoted owner figured it was time to give another retired racehorse a home. And it didn’t take long for Hufford to find Byline Story’s successor. Chromospere, a flashy chestnut gelding appeared on the Sale Horse Listings of New Vocations Racehorse Adoptions, and without hesitation, Hufford decided to take him. That’s how a horse who just as […]
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Elderly Secretariat stallion rescued
Editor’s note: Since the Exceller Fund reported rescuing Verifiable, the oldest living Secretariat stallion, it has since come to light that the stallion Country Side is even older! The story has been amended to reflect this information. A chestnut Thoroughbred identified as one of the oldest living Secretariat stallion was rescued this month from a stall where he had been confined for the past six years of his life. Verifiable, 27, identified through Jockey Club records as the son of legendary Secretariat, was taken in by The Exceller Fund, a horse-rescue organization, on Oct. 15, after the animals’ owners contacted […]
