The Road to the Retired Racehorse Project
Last year, I adopted my first horse. That's right - nearly 15 years of horse ownership, having owned 20+ horses, and I had never adopted until last year. Last year, I fell in love with a gigantic baby horse at New Vocations and just had to have him. Cold Gone Hot, aka Tiny, was a …
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It's no secret that I sit on a lot of green horses. Over the years, working with babies has proven to be my niche. Whether completely un-started or just beginning a new career, I've found a knack in bringing up the young ones, giving them confidence and direction to be successful where ever life takes …
Sitting at my desk one slow June day I aimlessly surfed the web, opening up Craigslist and typing "Horse" into the search bar. I had one empty spot in my pasture and was very casually looking for a project. As my eyes danced over the screen, they quickly stopped on an ad that read "Percheron Cross …
As an Expecting Eventer facing motherhood for the first time, I had no idea what I was doing. The majority of my life had been spent in a barn and realizing I was about to be responsible for a life that couldn't be stalled at night and cried instead of whinnied was nerve wracking. So, …
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With RRP trainer applications open, the search is on for that one perfect Makeover mount! Your partner for the next 10 months and the one to take you to the Kentucky Horse Park and beyond! As the RRP Thoroughbred Makeover grows in popularity, so does the amount of potential trainers vying for a piece of …
This blog was started to chronicle a common goal over the last few years of my life - to make it to the Retired Racehorse Project's Thoroughbred Makeover. To successfully take a horse off the track and retrain it for a specific discipline in 10 months' time. To be a part of the change in …
Today, I didn't complete an event. For the first time ever, I halted at X and did not gallop through the finish flags. Today, I did not even step onto the cross country course. Of all the things that can go wrong during an event, none of them happened. We did not make an unplanned …
16 months ago, Java was standing in a stall at Turfway Park. Race fit and knowing nothing but the track for the last 4 years of her life, she was ready to retire from racing. Body sore and a little lame, I fell in love with her anyway and despite my vet's hesitation, Java came …
This weekend I did a thing... and maybe not the smartest of things I've ever done. This weekend, the weekend of Daylight Saving Time, I decided it would be a great idea to attend back-to-back horse shows for three different horses over two days. To say I was exhausted at the end of the weekend …
Trainer announcements for the RRP Thoroughbred Makeover class of 2018 have been made! A whopping 812 trainers applied to compete at this year's event and 794 were accepted - the largest group of trainers in the event's history! Within this huge group of trainers, less than 250 individuals have participated in a Makeover before. Let's …
