Derby winning team keeps promise to help OTTB
Making good on a promise to help an unremarkable racehorse who once passed through the hands of Kentucky Derby winning trainer Graham Motion, a staffer of the famous horseman worked tirelessly to secure a sanctuary home at the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation for a sweet gelding who’d run out of options. Because of a note written by Graham Motion’s Herringswell Stables Ltd., and affixed to Jockey Club paperwork for bay gelding Don’t Quit Dreaming, Sue Kenny, an office manager for the famous horseman who trained 2011 Derby winner Animal Kingdom, hit the phones on behalf of the little-known racehorse who loves peppermints […]
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Mountaineer Park offers 40 OTTBs for sale
In a grassroots effort to find new homes for Thoroughbreds as the racing season ends, the Mountaineer Racetrack will offer 40 horses for sale this Sunday, including a warhorse who ran 115 times. Responding to numerous requests by horsemen who asked Mountaineer to emulate other racetrack OTTB sales, the Mountaineer Park HBPA joined forces with CANTER-Ohio to offer an End of Meet Showcase on Sunday, Nov. 6, at noon. Scheduled to take place in the paddock of 1420 Mountaineer Circle in New Cumberland, W.V., the first-ever Showcase will offer “something for everyone” in the market for a horse, says CANTER-Ohio […]
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Kill pen mare and foal thrive, beat odds
A pregnant and crippled kill pen mare, who eluded death in the slaughterhouse only to face possible euthanasia, now romps around a Massachusetts farm with a joy that defies her physical condition and astonishes her owner. “My vet says she’s the worst case he’s ever seen,” says Christina Sawelsky of her rescue horse Open Zipper. “For a mare who people said should have been euthanized, she’s incredible. The second I take her halter off when I lead her out to her paddock, I have to stand way back because she bucks and spins and takes off running across the paddock—she’s […]
