‘Race industry needs to take care of its horses’
Days before Triple Crown hopeful American Pharoah was set to blast off from post-position 5 at Belmont Park, an award-winning jockey turned sportscaster, and nicknamed for a Russian fighter jet, spoke of the need in the horse world and racing industry to take care of its equine athletes. Richard “The Mig” Migliore, an Eclipse Award winning jockey who tenaciously piloted horses to close to 4,500 wins in a storied career, says that horses brought him “everything good in my life” and now that he is retired from horse racing, he seeks to “pay them back” from his vantage on the […]
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Bobby Flay praises TRF in Variety magazine
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay, a major supporter of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF), recently spoke with Variety about his passion for Thoroughbreds and commitment to the nation’s oldest and largest Thoroughbred charity. In an interview with writer Phil Gallo, Flay describes his fond childhood memories spent on the racetrack, and how that passion for racehorses eventually led him to not only participate in the sport, but to offer major support to the TRF. Please read about Bobby Flay and the TRF in the June 2 edition of Variety, which is cross-posted in the following link with permission of Variety: http://variety.com/2015/tv/spotlight/bobby-flay-thoroughbred-retirement-foundation-1201510067/
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Craigslist OTTB rakes in high-level ribbons
Leading Grand Prix rider and coach Trapp O’Neal was out shopping for a flatbed trailer one lazy afternoon in August when he discovered in the dirt and dust of a modest Texas farm a gem of a Thoroughbred with the makings of an A-rated sport horse. Though Au Girl lived in circumstances that lacked a standard ring to stretch her legs or pretty jumps to display her form, she went along quite willingly and smartly for O’Neal, who rode her in her jockey’s saddle over jumps made of orange cones and lumber. The bay mare just seemed a natural for the […]
