From New Mexico track with Love, Red is home
Some might say Redabyebye was once a horse with a pile of cards stacked against him. As racehorses go, he wasn’t all that good. And, he ran in low claimers at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico, a racetrack recently investigated by the New York Times for its high rate of death and injury to jockeys and horses. In seven starts, Redabyebye hit the board only once, winning a mere $1,800 for a second-place finish. With such a poor showing at a track so near to Mexican slaughterhouses, his fate could have been in question. Yet, the stars aligned for this […]
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Veterinary Answers: Dr. Raul Bras on laminitis
Dr. Raul Bras, DVM, CJF at world-renowned Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital is on the front lines of the daily battle to keep horses sound. In another installment of a special Horse-Health Q&A series with OffTrackThoroughbreds, the podiatry expert answers questions about the dreaded disease, laminitis. Bras points out that the affliction, which led to the demise of racing greats Secretariat and Barbaro, stubbornly remains the second leading cause of death of horses. Here, the respected Rood &Riddle veterinarian, a 2005 graduate of Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, answers questions about advances in treatment, and also offers a cautionary […]
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Man of Danger, Ident, land softly
They went through wars to collect nearly $700,000 between them, only to reap their biggest payoff in retirement— the sweet grass of their own modest, two-acre paddock in Michigan. It might not look like much to the untrained eye, but the small, fenced-in yard where Ident and Man of Danger now call home might as well be a sprawling estate for all the good it has done the pair. Both horses, who forged a fast friendship in the tranquility of the paddock, slogged it out on racetracks, earning big money before they met. Today, as the cherished pets of Jeannie […]
