Jaguar Hope brings life-changing chain reaction
Jaguar Hope like a cinematic star when Wendy Wooley snapped his picture and later turned the image loose on the world. Regal, his black head held high, he sashayed around his new paddock with the flair of a leading man. And on a warm August day in 2007, when Wooley framed the charismatic Thoroughbred with her then-amateur photography skills, she unwittingly captured a fleeting moment that would lead to love, a new career and even influence in the movie War Horse. What started the “chain reaction” of change in her life began with that snapshot, which was taken the first […]
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T’bred with blown tendon is helped homeward
In a late afternoon race at Suffolk Downs last September, Noble’s Honor ruptured his left, front tendon in a scramble to the finish line, and wound up falling into the kind, caring hands of people who would help. He was taken back to his stall, bandaged up, attended to by a track veterinarian and offered for sale during CANTER New England’s Suffolk Showcase just one month later. And from his dinged-up stall with peeling green paint, he must have had the luck of the Irish when Taylor Belakonis and her sister Marina went to see him Oct. 14th. Looking beyond […]
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TAA in full swing to accredit TB charities
An army of volunteers and entrusted helpers has fanned out to visit Thoroughbred charities across the country, flipping the lips of all ex-racehorses in the care of myriad certified nonprofits, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the health and wellbeing of the noble racehorses turned over to individual charities. The inspections have been carried out at the behest of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA), a group formed two years ago, and comprised of leaders in all areas of the Thoroughbred racing and aftercare world. Alliance Vice President Madeline Auerbach says the overall mission’s main goals are to ensure that horses […]
