Moving on up!
Good news! Due to the increase in readership,which this blog is experiencing, it has become necessary to make some technical improvements. This site will migrate to a new, bigger home on the Internet on Monday, May 11th. While this work is taking place, no story will appear. However, we plan to be back soon —this week—with some pretty great OTTB stories. Thank you for reading and appreciating this site! All the best, Sue Salk
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Derby parties raise funds for 900 T’breds
As Thoroughbred racing’s finest 3 year olds dashed across the finish line of the Kentucky Derby Saturday, cheers and charity coalesced at Derby Parties from New York to Florida benefitting the 900 ex-racehorses in the care of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF). Longtime TRF supporter Kal Chany threw his 14th annual Big Apple Derby at Dorrian’s Red Hand Restaurant in the Upper East Side, NYC, raffling off box seats at Saratoga Race Course, which had been generously donated by the New York Racing Association (NYRA); and just across the street from the upstate New York track, King’s Tavern launched its […]
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Tractor light once shined on TB in darkest hour
In the dark of midnight tractor lights lit up his fine head, which lolled as his long Thoroughbred legs dangled like a marionette’s limbs, only inches above the ground. ‘”Damn it! We should have put him down. We shouldn’t have put him through this!” said Beverly Strauss at the time. The director of Mid-Atlantic Horse Rescue recalls saying those words as her throat caught, and she watched him dangle like a ragdoll last March. As hope of saving the young bay gelding faded, a man who assisted in hoisting the starving animal up after he had been down and unable […]
