4-legged lame and dying, Chance made it home
He stood in crippling pain on four bad feet. Most who looked at him just shook their heads. His condition seemed hopeless. But not to Brenda Lewis. She disputed what two horse rescues said, when they briefly considered and then declined to help a Thoroughbred named Chance. And she bristled when warned not to go near the starving wretch “with a ten-foot pole” because he would never recover. Lewis had seen a hell of a lot worse in her life; she witnessed her mother and three siblings die from the ravages of Huntington’s Chorea, an incurable genetically transmitted disease that […]
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Mindy Lovell nears $10K goal, donors from afar
A few weeks after launching a fundraiser to keep her 43 rescued T’breds fed through the brutally cold Canadian winter, Ontario equine advocate Mindy Lovell announced she is 80 percent to her goal of $10,000. As of Dec. 11, The Transitions Thoroughbreds Fall 2013 Fundraiser has brought in approximately $8,200 in donations, with donors sending checks and email transfers from as far away as New Zealand, Australia and Europe, and also from those inside the racing industry, as well as horse fans, and personal friends, she says. “I got a letter and a donation from a lady whose husband had […]
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Maggi Moss swoops in to retire a warhorse
Leading racehorse owner Maggi Moss, in a no-holds-barred attempt to win the retirement of a warhorse she once owned, took to Social Media this past weekend to plead the case and ultimately win the retirement of hard-knocking racehorse Fuhrever Dancing. The horse had done enough, she reasoned. After 99 starts and earning nearly $700,000 in purse money, the 11-year-old Thoroughbred should be retired, Moss stated on Facebook Sunday night, effectively taking her private attempts to purchase the horse, public. “The calls and phone calls went back and forth the entire weekend, between me and the horse’s connections, and by Sunday I […]
