OTTB gets ‘rare opportunity’ to exit Puerto Rico
A racehorse showcasing impressive bloodlines and a nose-to-the-grindstone work history was plucked last month from an uncertain fate in Puerto Rico and returned to his original breeder, who offered him a lifetime home. After a 5th-place finish at Camareo racetrack on July 31, New York-bred Swinging At Siro’s concluded his career spanning 87 races and earning over $170,000 with a big question mark dangling over his future. Until that is, his connections there and in the states pulled together to deliver him home. According to Lucinda Finely of nonprofit charity Finger Lakes Finest Thoroughbreds, and Shelley Blodgett, a Thoroughbred advocate, […]
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Q&A: Jimmy Bell sounds off on OTTB aftercare
For the past two years, Jimmy Bell has been the President of the Board of Directors of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, the non-profit organization which accredits, inspects and awards grants to approved aftercare organizations. As his two-year term comes to an end, he sat down with the TDN’s Sue Finley to talk about what he’s learned, and where the industry needs to be in terms of aftercare. SF: Why did you agree to take this on? JB: Before the TAA, I think I was a typical person in the industry regarding my thoughts on aftercare, and I think my path represents […]
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Partly blind ‘Everglades horse’ wins big honor
A chestnut Thoroughbred known as the “Everglades Horse” following his harrowing rescue from the swamps of Florida, and who twice fought back from the brink of death, has taken top honors in a major Canadian hunter series. Partly blind ex-racehorse Prodigioso, who learned to jump in perfect form after a Canadian mother-daughter equestrian team adopted him in 2013 and brought him to their Ontario farm, was the highest scoring Thoroughbred in the Long Run Hunter Classic Series at the Caledon Equestrian Park. “We just found out that though Prodigioso received the highest number of points in the Long Run Hunter […]
