It took 4 days before dumped horse could rise
On a rocky Florida roadside where nothing nutritious grows stood a horse whose body had sunken from starvation. With no walls to confine him, he stood rooted to the roadside and to his fate, with no spirit to escape. The fight, says his rescuer, had gone right out of him. He seemed to accept whatever life held for him. But on Feb 17, instead of death, came four angels in the form of three officers from the Hialeah, Fla. police department, along with Laurie Waggoner, director of ranch operations for the South Florida SPCA. Together they eased the horse away […]
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Orphaned young, ridden hard, a change of fate
From the moment he dropped from his mother into the soft, yielding hay, Roger lived the life of a tough-luck horse who somehow managed to stay on his feet. Orphaned at three weeks after his beautiful mother Formula succumbed to colic, Roger would embark on a life buffeted and knocked down by fate, by other horses, and by racing. But somehow, he always managed to get back up. If he had a rock n’ roll anthem, Tom Petty’s lyric “Even the losers get lucky sometime,” might just sum it up. The first foal bred by Pennsylvania horseman Bill McCarthy, Roger […]
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Hats off to Old Friends and new ambassadors
New Vocations taps ambassadors New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program announced the names of 16 ambassadors of the Thoroughbred and Standardbred re-homing organization to represent and promote the successful horse charity. The individual equestrians who adopted ex-racehorses from the program will be asked to blog about their experiences as they participate in a wide range of disciplines with their equine partner, including dressage, eventing, hunter/jumpers, endurance, saddleseat, and driving. The shows, the events, and all other activities that the 16 ambassadors participate in will help spread the good word about the ex-racehorse sport horse, and the New Vocations program, says New […]
