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A former inmate who spent the final 16 months of a nearly 13-year prison sentence learning to care for Thoroughbreds, credits the beautiful animals as “godsends” for teaching him the confidence he needed to land a professional job with a pharmaceutical software company shortly after returning to society outside the razor wire. Scott Keefauver, an inmate at the Wateree River House of Corrections from March 2009 until September 2015 says that working with retired racehorses at the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s Second Chances program for inmates and racehorses helped better prepare him for a future career than the online college degree […]

With a feather-light, 15-foot stride, an ex-racehorse named Feather jumps around hunter courses as silently as her name implies, but with the steely strength of a champion who will fight and win against all comers. The six-year-old Thoroughbred mare, who had four races under the Jockey Club name She’s From Money, was just a “skinny, scrawny” racetrack reject about two-and-a-half years ago. But in the hands of owner Scotty Sherman of Hunting Horn Farm in Maryland, and talented rider Jennifer Marshall, the mare who was rejected by others for less-than-spectacular looks, has been taking down the Warmblood competition, one after […]