Where soldiers once walked come war horses
Soldiers once walked past the historic Rose Bower Farm in Appomattox, Va. where Barbara Luna has fittingly claimed the land for Thoroughbred war horses. For the older ones who have battled so long on the track, she offers respite and healing at her newly created nonprofit War Horses at Rose Bower, and begins again, at age 56, helping the horses of an industry that has been too kind to her. “In all these years, I’ve made my living in some area of racing,” says Luna, a long-serving member of Parx Racing’s retirement program Turning for Home. In this week’s Clubhouse […]
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Santa baby, there’s a New Vocations sale—hint
For the fifth consecutive year, New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program is offering its annual half-off sale by shaving the cost off the adoption fee in an effort to re-home beautiful horses just in time for the holidays. In this week’s Clubhouse Q&A, New Vocation’s Program Director Anna Ford discusses the successful sale, which has in past years helped re-home as many as 40 horses in a single month, and she outlines other details a prospective adopter needs to know, as well as offering her picks for the ideal hunter/jumper, eventer and dressage prospects. Q: What are your goals with this […]
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Q&A: Leland Neff, an abiding love of horses
Jet-setting fashion photographer Leland Neff rode to the highest peaks in a career that carried him around the world, and filled his days and nights with dazzling imagery and beautiful people. And yet at his core remained a rock-solid passion for what he found to be the most beautiful inspiration of all. The horse. Since Neff was 3 years old and growing up in Texas, he has immersed himself in the sheer joy of being next to them, riding them, and even becoming a talented rodeo rider in his youth. By age 6, Neff also discovered his natural talent for […]
