Thoroughbred Horses For Sale | Retraining Off-the-Track Thoroughbreds | Success Stories
The Horse Nation web site featured our “Flash Mobbed by OTTBs” video on their site. There are lots of other great stories and cartoons on the Horse Nation site. Take a visit to their site and revisit our picnic IN the race.
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Over the years of finding homes for ex-race horses, we have built relationships with their trainers, owners and breeders. We have several breeders for whom we sell their geldings, broodmares and horses they decided not to race. Brassador is a Thoroughbred gelding who has never raced.
Read more about this wonderful Thoroughbred horse from sale directly from his breeder. We know his entire history!
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Looking back over the last ten years brings to mind many wonderful horses and owners we have known. We will be posting “Then and Now” stories of some of our favorite horses and owners. Our first story is about Light Artillery who came to us missing three shoes with the fourth shoe on crooked. . . most people would have passed this horse by . . .
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As we celebrate ten years of placing off-the-track Thoroughbreds we will take a look back at some of the fun we have had with our Thoroughbreds here at Bits & Bytes Farm. We will link you to some of our older stories and share our history with you.
Valentine’s Day 2007 was a very special one for Joe Bear and Paula Gunnels. Her husband, David, surprised Paula with her favorite Thoroughbred Joe Bear. Go read the story in the older section of our Web site.
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So Romeo is a Thoroughbred Horse For Sale at Bits & Bytes Farm. He is looking for someone to love him and compete with him. We have been having fun with Romeo doing de-spooking exercises. So Romeo is a talented horse and he is looking for an experienced rider to take him to competitions. He is not a horse for a child or timid rider. He is extremely athletic and cat-like. He can jump the moon! He is best suited for jumping, eventing and dressage.
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From our resident artist Melanie Eberhardt:
I was inspired this morning at 6 am to make this quick holiday appropriate NickerDoodle. When I drew it, I was thinking about how our horses find ways to tell us that they love us….:)
Happy Valentines Day!
— Melanie Eberhardt
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Young Joe has been away from racing just two weeks. His new mom, Mary Catherine, has been riding him and teaching him the basics of being a sport horse as opposed to being a race horse. Since leaving the race track Joe has learned to cross tie, stand while being mounted, stand quietly while being ridden, walk, trot and canter without getting quick.
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Search the ten years of content with a single search! We have included a new Google Search box on the sidebars of our Web site so that you can search our entire site. Don’t be surprised if you hit a page that looks different . . . Web technology has changed but we have kept all the old content so you can go back and read all the stories and see every horse we have ever placed. Enjoy!
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