Presque Isle Downs to offer 30+ horses for sale
The Presque Isle Downs & Casino will join CANTER-PA next month in a first-time joint effort to match retiring racehorses with prospective buyers. During an Oct. 1 Showcase set for the Erie, Penn. racetrack, roughly 30 OTTBs will be presented to the horse-buying public in an event designed to help less competitive racehorses get a hoof up in their next career. The venture to aid trainers and horsemen in their efforts to find new homes for horses who, in many cases, have been lightly raced, was trail-blazed by Monica Travers of the track’s Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protection Association (HBPA) and […]
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OTTBs now halfway across US on endurance ride
California equestrian Valerie Ashker recently reached the midway point of her 3,500-mile, cross-country ride, raising awareness for those invincible, courageous off-track Thoroughbreds. Riding her OTTB Primitivo, and accompanied by her boyfriend Peter Friedman who is riding OTTB Solar Express, she stopped to snap a picture of a giant road sign, which proclaimed New York and San Francisco to be equidistant at 1,561 miles. “We’ve passed the hardest, most crushing part of this ride,” says Ashker, 60. “I think when I started this journey five months ago, people didn’t think I could do it. Now that we’re almost to Missouri, people […]
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Tearful breeder strikes deal for beloved horse
A successful race mare who was claimed in a four-way shake at the Saratoga Race Course last month was well on her way to continuing on with her demanding race career when her original breeder stepped up and pleaded that the mare’s new owners allow her to take the horse home. And much to the shock of one-time racehorse breeder Kelly Zanella, the new connections of race mare Run a Dubb Dubb, 6, did not laugh. Nor did they quibble. Though race owner Michael Pino had won the shake on a claim on Dubb after the mare knocked in her […]
