Old photo is puzzle piece in mystery mare saga
A 20-year-old rescue mare who once had nothing—not a name, not papers, not enough food to sustain her bedraggled frame—has had everything returned, even a relic of her past glory. This month, an old win photo arrived. It showed the horse once known as “No Name” to her rescuers crossing the finish line at Thistledown. Crowning Glory, a granddaughter of Affirmed who was rescued by Miami-Dade authorities in South Florida two years ago, looked resplendent after a win. For owner and caretaker Susie Martell, the photo was another piece of a puzzle in the life of the racemare she adopted […]
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OTTB rematch held at PA Horse World Expo
BY STEUART PITTMAN—Five graduates of last year’s Retired Racehorse Project’s $100,000 Thoroughbred Makeover, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, performed this weekend in Harrisburg at the Pennsylvania Horse World Expo. Their task was to demonstrate to the crowd that off-track Thoroughbreds are the most trainable, elegant, versatile partners that a human can find anywhere. The Thoroughbred Makeover Rematch was a headline feature of the expo and one of five educational sessions presented by Retired Racehorse Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing demand for Thoroughbreds and building bridges to second careers. Diabolic and Nicole Cammuso began by demonstrating their western reining […]
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Parx Racing official helps retire warhorse, 10
Multiple stakes winner Awakino Cat, 10, was retired from racing this month after knocking in 72 starts and earning north of $600,000. Eight weeks shy of his 11th birthday, the quirky bay gelding ran one last time at Penn National before he was turned over to his former assistant trainer of six years, Samantha Randazzo, who with the help of Parx Racing Secretary Sam Elliott, brokered a deal with the gelding’s most recent owner/trainer, David Neilson. All agreed: It was time for Awakino Cat to exit his career as a racehorse. “It was the right thing to do,” Neilson says. […]
