Hot stuff T’breds go to Old Friends, New Voc.
Some big name Thoroughbred got their just deserts after years of racing, and many trips into the winner’s circle. In Marysville, Ohio, New Vocations Racehorse Adoption welcomed million-dollar-earner and graded stakes winner Gourmet Dinner to the fold. The beautiful bay gelding was retired through a collaboration with the NYTHA’s Take the Lead Program, which strives to help Thoroughbreds who retire in New York find a soft landing. And in Georgetown, Ky., Old Friends welcomed four Thoroughbreds previously owned by Drawing Away Stables, including Photon, who earned more than $300,000, Z Dager, a multiple graded stakes placed horse who earned more […]
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Shooting for 4 stars on a string of T’breds
Four-star Eventer Stephanie Rhodes-Bosch isn’t a breed snob. Not at all. In her earlier years she rode all sorts of breeds competitively, including Warmbloods. But in recent years, the 26-year-old top rider from Virginia has been competing almost exclusively on Thoroughbred ex-racehorses. “I don’t think it’s necessarily about the breed of horse. It’s about the horse as an individual. But, at the four-star level I think you need to be on a horse who is at least 60 percent Thoroughbred to have the stamina to make it through the cross-country course,” she says. “I’ve met people who think they don’t […]
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Cost of Freedom retired by Santa Anita clocker
Scanning the entries at Betfair Hollywood Park’s claiming races last week, John Malone stared in disbelief at a familiar name: Cost of Freedom. The one he calls “an original class horse,” and winner of more than a million dollars, was running for an $8,000 claiming tag at age 10. “I just felt bad,” Malone says. “He ran third in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (in 2009) and won over a million dollars. All I could think was, ‘Why is he still here? Hasn’t he done enough?’ ” Decades in the horse business himself— as a Thoroughbred trainer in the past and […]
