A banker and racehorse take a giant leap
In a blinding snowstorm, Leah Lang-Gluscic was clear-eyed and confident as she drove to an Illinois racetrack to place the bet of a lifetime. The onetime investment banker who’d parlayed a degree from Wharton Business School into a two-year career in Washington, D.C., kept her hands steady on the wheel as she piloted her truck through the blizzard, excited to turn her life around. Deciding to give up banking to focus full-time on a career with horses, she approached the small fairground in Martinsville, Ill., with very low expectations that the big bay she’d seen advertised by CANTER Illinois would […]
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New Vocations re-homes 41 horses at holidays
New Vocations Racehorse Adoption reports that its annual Christmas sale resulted in 41 ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds finding new homes. “The promotion was a huge success,” says Anna Ford, program director for the Thoroughbred & Adoption Office. “There are still too many retired racehorses not getting the chance to excel in a second career after they leave the track.” The following horses found new homes: Thoroughbreds—Thunder Dancing, Roving, Bomber, Baroness Kayah, Fluid Grace, Technique, Goodstone, Crypto Aero, Memorized, Rodin, Majestic Tiger, Remand, Cat in the Bag, Satin Kddin,Smartacus, French Cotton, Are You Serious, Quarry Tremor, Lei Nani, Jacinth, Rae of […]
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Love from a racehorse helps a shy child blossom
As a child, little Megan Hansford was shy to the point of being a bit of a loner. She tended to hang back from family gatherings, and well out of the limelight. “She never had much self-confidence,” says her mother Tracey Hansford. “She was always a quiet one who’d come home from school, do her homework and pretty much kept to herself.” But all that began to change last July, shortly after the sweet-natured 9-year-old accompanied her parents and older sister on a trip to look at a sale- horse, a retired racehorse named E Factor. When the group bustled […]
