After long struggle for health, Mascot euthanized
With a heavy heart, Melissa Rudershausen, owner of Double Rock Thoroughbred Rescue, announced this week that Mascot, the top-earning racehorse she saved from the New Holland Auction last year, was euthanized. Citing ongoing lameness problems stemming from incurable wear and tear on his stifle, Rudershausen announced that Mascot died Tuesday. “My heart is broken,” she says. Despite all her efforts to rehabilitate an animal who was in such rough shape the kill buyers weren’t interested in him, and Rudershausen’s proud history of turning rescued Thoroughbreds into competitive sport horses, poor Mascot, in the end, could not be saved. “This is […]
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Hay drive ends early due to heavy donations
Jo Deibel sat in her pickup, waiting at a red light, the pressures of running a horse rescue weighing on her mind, when a stranger rapped on her driver’s side window. Startled from her musings, she jumped, but then quickly rolled down the window when she saw the eager, smiling face. Before the light turned green, the woman quickly pressed $50 into Deibel’s hand, and said, “I love what you do.” The money was for this month’s hay drive at the nine-year-old charity: Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue. “It was pretty amazing,” Deibel says. “People are starting to recognize me […]
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Record crowds, stars turn out for OTTB event
The second annual Thoroughbreds for All fundraiser and awareness-building event broke all attendance records as crowds thronged the West Wind Farm in Kentucky, on April 26. More than 500 people hailing from 28 states came to watch, listen and learn at the feet of master horsemen such as America’s most winning three-day event rider Phillip Dutton, and Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron. What they and other expert horsemen helped demonstrate to a crowd, in town already to attend the famous Rolex Kentucky Three-Day that same weekend, was that ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds are competitive, willing and trainable at the end of […]
