$1/day pledge saves Spend A Buck’s daughter
The daughter of 1985 Kentucky Derby winner Spend A Buck was saved this summer from the slaughterhouse by eight horse lovers who each committed $1 per day to help the imperiled Thoroughbred. Dubbing themselves “Team Flossie,” the group of horsemen joined Linda Passaretti and Anne Tucker of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation in an effort Passaretti describes as “syndicaring” (her word for syndicating a rescue horse), sharing the costs of caring and saving the doomed mare, Thrilled Flossie. Thrilled Flossie Sire: Spend A Buck Dam: Thrilled, by To The Quick Foal date: 1999“I was initially contacted by Hank DeLeo to ask […]
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Junkies, angry inmates made well by T’breds
It was a crazy idea. Teaching prison inmates to care for Thoroughbred ex-racehorses in a rehabilitative setting that provided care for unwanted horses, while at the same time instilling a new lease on life for the inmates, seemed a bit far-fetched to Jim Tremper. So when a friend suggested that Tremper apply for a new position at the Wallkill Correctional Facility in New York, where the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) was preparing to launch its flagship Second Chances program, he recoiled— a little. “At the time I remember thinking I didn’t want to work at a prison,” he said. “And […]
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Young fan given son of Smarty Jones
Ten-year-old Madison Scott was playing in the backyard of her Texas home when her father yelled for her to hurry and come inside; history was in the making. The television in the Scott family’s living room was tuned to The Belmont Stakes, the third and final race of the legendary Triple Crown. And on that June day in 2004, sports fans like her father, who didn’t usually follow horse racing, paused to watch chestnut colt Smarty Jones make a flying bid at winning what hadn’t been won in decades. “My dad called me in to watch. He said a horse was going […]
