Turning for Home: PTHA Founds a Thoroughbred Horse Rescue with Teeth
One of the horses Turning for Home has available for adoption is Our Wildcat, a nine- year-old gelding, who earned $486,528. The son of Forest Wildcat won 14 of 71 starts, and was a multiple stakes winner. By Suzanna Bush, Pennsylvania
Inside Track: Turning Things Around
By Esther Marr, The Blood-Horse | Barbara Luna has spent most of her life working in various aspects of the Thoroughbred industry, from hot walking horses as a college student, to becoming a licensed owner and trainer later on down the
Betting On Creating Bonds
By Annie Tasker, The Bucks County Intelligencer | A new Special Equestrians program will pair at-risk teens with injured racehorses. The staff at Special Equestrians wasn't sure how a former racehorse would react to life away from the track. But Goodman's Girl, a 5-year-old
From Racetrack to Re-Homing: Giving Retired Thoroughbreds a Second Chance
By Amy Worden, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer | More than a year ago I picked up a copy of Pennsylvania Equestrian and read a fascinating story about a new retirement program for ex-race horses at Philadelphia Park. It wasn't a case of a
Saving Grace
By Margaret Guthrie, The Blood-Horse | It's early January with record cold temperatures in the 20s, according to the local bank sign. Every horse at the South Jersey Thoroughbred Rescue and Adoption farm is blanketed, actually double-blanketed. They appear
Radio Interview with WHYY
An organization on the grounds of Philadelphia Park is leading the nation in finding homes for ex-racing thoroughbreds. Race horses take a beating on the track and the average age of one of these animals is four years old, but
A horse rescuer who saves thoroughbreds headed to slaughterhouses
By Margaret Guthrie, The Christian Science Monitor | Little girls often fall in love with horses. Erin Hurley did at age 8 when she learned to ride. Her mother gave her a horse of her own when Erin turned 10. "My mom
Slaughter is a Dirty Word
By Barbara Luna, The Blood-Horse | The American Association of Equine Practitioners was first to call them “unwanted horses” in 2005. Three years later U.S. slaughter plants were closed with no plans or funding in place to deal with the
Horse Adoption Goes International
Two years ago Julia Zhu adopted a small bay gelding named Run’n’Coke from South Jersey Thoroughbred Rescue and Adoption. She renamed him RC and together they trained in dressage. “He recognizes his name as RC now and responds to it,”
Kelsey Lefever Case Appalling, Retirement Group Makes a Difference
BENSALEM, PA -- Amid concerns on the state and national level about the practice of racehorse slaughter, the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (PTHA) announced today that nearly 700 horses have been safely retired through a program it implemented in May