Ragamuffin T’bred finds someone to love him
Bedraggled and hanging half forgotten like a child’s rain-soaked stuffed animal, RV Smokin Joe was about the sorriest looking Thoroughbred Caroline LaCombe had ever laid eyes on. Wearing a 17.2 hand frame like an ill-fitting suit, his neck too short, his hair matted or worn away completely in spots, he peeked tentatively at the Texas barn manager who’d ridden along with a friend to check out the horse, now for sale. “My friend called me and asked if I wanted to go look at a Thorougbred at a local rescue, and he was about 45 minutes away from the barn […]
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Bright copper racehorse turns bad luck around
Bad luck crashed into Nancy George’s life like a tsunami and washed away her cherished 80-acre Kentucky farm in 2006; it was the first thing to go in a succession of achingly tragic losses that seemed to keep coming and coming until most of the fight was stamped out of her. In 2007, a year after she and her husband Harry walked away from the property they’d painstakingly built up with gorgeous indoor and outdoor rings, her father succumbed to a stroke. The next year her best friend died in a fluke accident, and after that her broodmare bled out […]
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Breeders’ Cup purses help OTTBs
(Press Release) Some of horseracing’s biggest stars are stepping up to the plate to support New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program by pledging a percentage of their purse earnings from the 2013 Breeders’ Cup World Championships, according to an Oct. 31 press release from New Vocations Racehorse Adoptions. For the fifth consecutive year, New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program is working with trainers and owners of Breeders’ Cup contenders to pledge a percentage of their earnings to support the program’s mission to rehabilitate, retrain, and rehome retired racehorses. In the past four years the Pledge has raised nearly $200,000. “We are so […]
