TRF marks 30 years pairing inmates with T-breds
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation celebrates the 30th anniversary of its hallmark Second Chances program next week at the Wallkill Correctional Facility in New York. On these grounds where the first of nine programs pairing prisoners with retired ex-racehorses for a transformative experience, a celebration will kick off at 11 a.m., June 19. The festivities will include a tour of the Wallkill Correctional Facility’s farm, where legendary ex-racehorse Quick Call, 30, happily roams in tranquility after a stellar racing career. Quick Call raced 89 times for Hall of Fame trainer Sid Walters and earned more than $800,000. But it’s in his […]
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Dubious at first, deep pride grew in gifted T-bred
Riding a T-bred she once looked at with skepticism, her heart now thundered with pride as the pair captured two major awards at the Woodside Spring International Horse Trials. JoAnna Saunders and her ex-racehorse Ansel Adams (JC: Marino Lad) seized the Preliminary Challenge (Rider) and the CANTER California OTTB High Point Award last month after a poor dress rehearsal that day, and three years after a less-than-magical introductory meeting. In this Clubhouse Q&A, Sunders admits she was not immediately bowled over when she first met the dappled gray she nicknamed Easton. After six months of looking, and three failed vet […]
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Million dollar earner retires to Old Friends
(Press Release)—Eldaafer, winner of the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Marathon, has been retired to Old Friends. The nine-year-old gelding, who suffered a career-ending suspensory injury last November, arrived at the Thoroughbred retirement facility in Central Kentucky on Monday June 2 along with his inseparable companions, the goats Google and Yahoo. Bred by Shadwell Farm by A.P. Indy out of multiple Grade 1 winner Habibti (Tabasco Cat), Eldaafer easily lived up to his name, which translates as “the victorious.” Campaigned by several owners throughout his career, Eldaafer had developed a reputation early on for being very difficult. But he began to live […]
