Home sweet home for Hotstufanthensome
When Hotstufanthensome limped off the van at New Vocations, his legs were “a mess.” “He could barely walk,” recalls former New Vocations trainer Lisa Molloy. “We had him X-rayed and we found factures in his front leg and a big hole in his suspensory branch.” But what no amount of medical testing could show that day, two years ago, or during his subsequent four months of stall rest and six months of rehab at New Vocations, was how the pint-sized racehorse would eventually charm people into looking out for his welfare, even after it first appeared he had no hope. […]
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In Brief: Eternal Orage dies; TB show results
Eternal Orage passes at Old Friends Michael Blowen, president and founder of Old Friends announced this morning that Eternal Orage, a favorite at his Thoroughbred retirement farm, died at age 25 of a heart attack. “Eternal Orage was a personal favorite,” Blowen stated in a press release. “I saw him win several races in New England, including the Sam McCracken Memorial, a handicap named for the late Boston Globe turf writer and one of my dearest friends.” Blowen also noted that, Joe DiRico, the great racehorse’s owner, visited the aging animal at Old Friends a month ago. The horse was bred by […]
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Outpouring saves 10 doomed broodmares
The tipoff came early last Saturday. Thoroughbred advocate Deborah Jones answered her phone in her California home and learned that ten Thoroughbred mares had just been dropped off at the Round Mountain Livestock Auction in Texas, a sale frequented by kill buyers, and if they were to be saved, she’d have to act quickly. Responding with something akin to a military scramble, Jones immediately phoned Donna Keen of Texas-based Remember Me Rescue to secure stalls for the doomed animals, and then contacted Dallas businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner John R. Murrell for funding assistance. “When I contacted him, I said, […]
