Susan Salk
OTTB is USDF All-Breeds Prix St. Georges champ
For the third consecutive year, an ex-racehorse who ran 41 times on low-claimer tracks has won the USDF All-Breeds Championship, this year exceeding all past results by achieving the highest score at the Prix St. Georges level. Recognized by the North American Thoroughbred Society for earning the median score of 64.737 in four separate tests, OTTB Real Gentleman clinched the top honor as he continues to excel at dressage in a way he never did at the racetrack. “Out of 41 races, he won one race,” says his owner Ann Seamonds of New Hampshire. “But in his competitive second career, […]
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A ‘miracle’ he got out of Bastrop, La. kill pen
A ratty chestnut gelding who by a stroke of luck was able to catch a ride out of the Bastrop kill pen in Louisiana, and be spared the slaughterhouse, has found a great home since his grand appearance at a Kentucky horse show last year. A Miracle’s On, a 3-year-old gelding rescued by MidAtlantic Horse Rescue last summer. Since competing in the trail ride competition, dragging logs, and winning hearts at the Kentucky Horse Park last year, he has become a show prospect for a young girl, says Bev Strauss of MidAtlantic Horse Rescue. Last year, A Miracle’s On competed in the Retired Racehorse Project’s […]
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‘Horses convert the toughest inmates’
Three decades having passed since he jackhammered concrete floors of an old dairy barn to make room for horses, Jim Tremper now looks back with pride on a little idea that turned a New York prison into a place of hope and second chances. Tremper, farm manager with Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s groundbreaking racehorse/prison program Second Chances was there the day a handful of inmates and security guards set about converting a 6,000 square foot barn into a shelter for unwanted retired racehorses and an old hayloft into a classroom to teach inmates horsemanship skills. And from his vantage as barn […]
