CANTER Mid-Atlantic launches hay drive
(Press Release) Rockville, Md.— CANTER Mid-Atlantic launched a Winter Hay and Holiday Card Drive this week to raise $4,500 to insure resources are available to maintain its much-needed winter hay supply. During this holiday season of giving, the certified nonprofit asks for consideration as the organization continues to do its work providing a safety net for horses at the end of their racing careers. An OTTB moving from track life to a post-racing career starts gently, getting time off to “be a horse” at one of the CANTER Mid-Atlantic farms. “We believe that the slow way is the best way […]
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Mare loses foal at feed lot, but gains new life
Deemed useless, spent from delivering progeny to sires such as Saffir, a mother and daughter stood like the others, unremarkable and the same as every other horse bound for slaughter that day. Their last foals were gone; the soft muzzles now absent from udders that hung full of milk. And the broodmare Thoroughbreds were left with nothing but a hay pile in a bleak Ottawa holding pen, as they grasped mouthfuls of hay before taking their final ride to a meat-processing plant. Reiki Sire: Bright Launch Dam: Healing Touch Foal date: March 11, 2005Reiki was pregnant at the time, but […]
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Barbaro author Alex Brown to return to England
Alex Brown, the outspoken British exercise rider who came to the states 26 years ago to ride at Fair Hill, but wound up becoming known for the social media community he fostered, is planning to ride off into the sunset. Brown, 49, announced this week that he intends to hang up the tack and return home to his native England to pursue a full-time teaching career centered around social media. And of social media, he became pretty expert in the subject in 2007, after Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro broke down at the Preakness, and the Internet savvy exercise rider began […]
