1st foal born to kill-pen mare fights off colic
The first foal produced by a Thoroughbred, among a band of heavily pregnant broodmares rescued from the slaughter pipeline Feb. 29, has made a dramatic entrance into the world. Shortly after Murphy’s Code gave birth to a tiny filly with a slightly crooked nose, the newborn named Liberty was rushed to the veterinary hospital having developed colic and an impaction, says Gerda Silver, who lead the rescue effort in late February to save a band of heavily pregnant broodmares from slaughter, including Murphy’s Code. “The night she was born (March 31) she started to colic and then had trouble passing […]
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Woman, 60, to ride her OTTB 3,500 miles
A 60-year-old equestrian plans to ride her off-track Thoroughbred from California to Maryland in a five-month journey meant to raise awareness and respect for the Thoroughbred sport horse. Valerie Ashker, an Eventer, horse trainer and mother of four-star Eventer Lainey Ashker, plans to set out on the 3,500-mile journey on May 8. Leaving from her home base at Crow’s Ear Farm, Calif. Ashker will ride her 7-year-old OTTB Primitivo roughly 10 miles a day along old Pony Express roads, looking to cross the United States following the Route 50 corridor. Primitivo Sire: Monashee Mountain Dam: Siberian Shamrock, by Siberian Summer […]
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Inmates are top dogs in horse class; ‘super’
Five inmates who shed the prison culture, and worked together as a team to care for horses, just entered the record books as the top-scoring class to graduate from the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s (TRF) unique Second Chances program, which teaches inmates real-world job and horsemanship skills. So highly did they score on a recent round of testing— never earning lower than an A— that they are now referred to as the “super class” at the James River Work Center in Virginia, says Melissa Jensen, TRF farm manager. “These guys were so superior that we retained all of them, with the […]
