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 […]
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Tearful breeder reunited with TRF rescue horse
Cathy Hartsock rushed into Barn 4 at the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s James River location, found the right stall, and threw her arms around the neck of the copper chestnut gelding she’d been worrying about for years. She began to cry. “I felt like I was seeing one of my children,” says Cathy Hartsock, who along with her husband Bob Hartsock had always wondered what happened to the off-track Thoroughbred Oligopolist. “He was the best horse we ever bred,” adds Bob Hartsock. The Maryland couple, who bred four horses in their lifetime, sold Oligopolist as a 2-year-old and avidly followed his […]
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Horse charity launches huge anti-slaughter effort
A New York charity, looking to end horse slaughter once and for all, is seeking to raise 100,000 signatures on an appeal to the White House. Equine Advocates, a horse sanctuary based in Chatham, N.Y. launched a signature drive last week in an effort to gain enough signatures by Election Day to convince the current administration to intercede on behalf of the estimated 150,000 horses shipped to Mexico and Canada every year for slaughter. Stating that mounting scientific evidence, published in top scientific journal Elsevier, as well as in the mainstream press, indicates horse meat is tainting “beef products” sold […]
