Clubhouse Q&A: A look at OTTB Connect
Working on the racetracks of New Mexico, Laura Holmes led a hard life. Between witnessing the high rate of breakdowns, and imagining the sickening deaths of equine athletes in nearby Mexican slaughterhouses, she was compelled to help. In conjunction with her ongoing work helping to re-home ex-racehorses, Holmes recently launched the Facebook Page OTTB Connect. In it, she hopes to offer a forum for discussion about all manner of issues related to Thoroughbreds, as well as provide a place to display information about sale horses who don’t make it onto other Sales Horse sites. In this week’s Clubhouse Q&A, Holmes […]
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Q&A with Jen Roytz of Three Chimneys Farm
Three Chimneys Farm Communications Director Jen Roytz is like a racehorse who possesses the magical combination of talent at both distance and sprint races. In her world of marketing for one of the premiere racehorse breeding farms in the United States, she deftly navigates between her many duties, which include promoting the farm, its star stallions and their progeny, and stepping up, time and time again, to help horse advocates rescue ex-racehorses who fall through the cracks. And she has fun along the way. When it looked like Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another, the son of Three Chimneys stallion […]
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Clubhouse Q&A: Her dream home on the range
To anyone who has ever sat at a desk breathing stale dry air and reading through snippy emails from their boss, Jessica Creighton, equestrian and now, sole owner and operator of her own 266-acre Freer Prospect Farm in Maine, leads an enviable life. Far from a world of sleep deprived colleagues, her fuzzy faced farm animals and ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds all flock to see her, seeking food, yes, but providing deep reward to a young lady who works sunup to sundown making hay the old-fashioned way. In this week’s Clubhouse Q&A, Creighton took time away from her very busy schedule to […]
