Photo of the week: Thankful for sugary treats
Kentucky based equine photographer Wendy Wooley of EquiSport Photos, fell in love with Canoodler (Broken Vow x Julies Love Letter) when they met on the track a few years ago. After sharing doughnuts with him, and drooling over him from afar, Wooley was finally able to purchase him last November. Wooley’s husband Matt captures the joy of the holiday season (and a shared love of sugary snacks) in this photo. Off-Track Thoroughbreds.com wishes readers and OTTB fans a joyous and peaceful Thanksgiving.
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Q&A: Inmates from Chicago learn to love horses
A woman who once galloped horses and groomed for legendary horsemen—Sir Henry Cecil, John Gosden and Henry Jones among them—now finds meaning and inspiration at the Vandalia Correctional Facility in Illinois. In a careworn barn far from the glitz and glamor of her old stomping grounds at Royal Ascot, Nicki Wheeler, originally from Scotland, teaches inmates from Chicago how to care for and trust thousand-pound ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds. Serving as the barn manager and equine instructor for the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s Second Chances program, Wheeler works with inmates, teaching them valuable horsemanship skills while they care for some of the 900 […]
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Stakes placed TB leaves meat truck to help vets
A stakes placed T’bred who’d earned north of $350,000 during a lifetime spent racing, stood tied to a meat truck; his head hung in defeat. “This is the part that makes me want to cry. He just stood there, with his head dropped, and an attitude like he’d just accept whatever’s next,” said Nicki Smith, a Thoroughbred advocate with the Exceller Fund. “What’s so heartbreaking is he would have willingly walked on the trailer because he has such a pleasant disposition.” But it wasn’t Sonofaqueen’s time to die. Though he’d already been purchased by a meat buyer at the New Holland […]
