Photo of the Week: Bath time for Archie’s Echo
Archie’s Echo is a 26-year-old T’bred, who years ago raced predominantly in New England, and was rescued earlier this summer by an old friend. Sam Elliott, formerly of Suffolk Downs, and current vice president for racing at Parx, pulled out his credit card in June to save the long-ago racehorse from death in a slaughterhouse. Teaming up with Parx’s Thoroughbred retirement charity Turning for Home, he pulled the underweight, one-eyed racehorse to safety. Please see earlier article here: http://offtrackthoroughbreds.com/2015/06/22/one-eyed-tbred-rescued-by-parx-vp-and-friends/ Since making it out of a kill pen by the skin of his teeth, Archie’s Echo has been enjoying the TLC […]
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Will the TB Racing Integrity Act help?
Horsemen and horseplayers reacted with hope tinged with a healthy dose of skepticism to the Thoroughbred Horseracing Integrity Act of 2015, a new piece of bipartisan legislation introduced last Thursday, which seeks to enact unified medication standards and policies in an industry said to be so lacking in this area. The act, which was introduced by Congressmen Andy Barr (R-Ky.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.), the co-chairs of the Congressional Horse Caucus, seeks to establish an independent, nongovernmental, anti-doping authority to establish a uniform, national standard governing the use of medications in racehorses, according to a press release. Citing the “fractured” […]
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From the dregs of racing to Dressage star
Like royalty wearing rags, Real Gentleman spent his early life cloaked in the dust and sweat of working class racetracks. Bouncing between Suffolk Downs in East Boston and Finger Lakes Race Track in Farmington, N.Y., the refined and upright gelding, who possessed hidden talents that could make him great, tried to plug himself into the gritty life, where he floundered. In 41 starts, he had just a single victory in the battle for small purse money, before he finished out his career as the ugly winter of 2012 closed in. With a mere $16,000 in lifetime earnings, his real talents […]
