Parx enforces zero tolerance policy on slaughter
A Parx Racing official announced this week that the racetrack has imposed sanctions against a racehorse owner in accordance with the track’s zero tolerance of horse slaughter. Sam Elliott, director of racing/racing secretary, announced that stabling privileges were revoked from the last owner connected to 4-year-old Thoroughbred Wolf King, who died shortly after he was discovered at the New Holland auction earlier this summer. The owner, Mario Arriaga, who stepped forward to pay the $900 “bail” to purchase the animal back from meat buyers after the horse was discovered at the New Holland auction on Aug. 3, has appealed the […]
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Famous painting OTTB offers coloring books!
(Press Release) Gettysburg, Pa.— Adult coloring books are hot, and so is this best selling artist from Gettysburg, Pa. who just happens to be a horse….a painting horse. Metro Meteor, a 12 year old retired thoroughbred racehorse took up painting when his hobbled knees prevented him from having a second career away from the track. He soon became the best selling artist at Gallery 30 in Gettysburg. Now Metro has designed his first coloring book titled: Coloring with Metro with all the drawings designed by Metro and his artist/owner, Ron Krajewski. “Metro will paint with whatever he can hold in his mouth, be […]
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TB champ sells for Warmblood price, so talented
A red OTTB mare once so wild she needed additional head restraints as she walked alongside a burly handler who muscled control over the kicking mare, has since become a champion show horse so successful on the west coast that she quickly sold in September for the price of a Warmblood! Holiday Cat, the pedigreed and talented Thoroughbred sport horse, and a force to be reckoned with on the West Coast Zone 9 show circuit, was sold in September by owners Jorji McEllrath and her equestrian daughter Brayle for $22,500, a sum commonly fetched by Warmbloods. “I see so many […]
