Thoroughbred Horses For Sale | Retraining Off-the-Track Thoroughbreds | Success Stories
On June 29th, 2011, after 76 starts at the racetrack, Gold Commander One found a new career with Jennifer Himes of Memphis, TN. ‘Goldie’ turned 22 on April 27th, 2022 and he is still living an active life with Jennifer. Read her latest update…
Dr. Fred is one lucky horse. He got his own carrot birthday cake for his eleventh birthday. Watch as he digs in to get the carrots. LOL. Dr. Fred shares his birthday with his youngest filly who just turned fourteen the same day! Happy Birthday Dr. Fred and filly! Watch the video!
“He may or he may not be here tomorrow. If he is, then he is meant to be your horse. If he is not, there will be a better horse for you. ”
Life is full of twists and turns. Here is a story about two Thoroughbred horses sold from the race track to two young women in two different years.
Breaking Free aka “Freeby“was a Prospect Horse for sale from the track on our Web site recently. He was on an doff the site due to his owner wanting to continue racing him while he was for sale. Poor “Freeby” was a maiden (non winner of a race) when he went up on our site. …
Our girl Absolute Charm has made it to her new home. It took three of our best shippers and almost a week to do it but she has arrived safe and sound. It is a wonderful story that you can read on our OTTB Success Stories Web site. We will miss her greatly but we know she is where she is meant to be. More soon. . .
As the year winds down we are still trying to keep up with all the wonderful OTTB Success Stories we have received. Please do not be upset if we have still not gotten your update posted. We are working to get caught up, but ‘real’ work gets in the way. Please understand that we read …
If you have not visited our sister site: www.OTTBSuccessStories.com then you have not read the rest of the story. We require our buyers to stay in touch. Our OTTB Success Stories are their stories about what it is like to transition a Thoroughbred off-the-track and into a new career. Our stories are published for potential buyers to learn what to expect and they are also for our sellers so that they know their horse is loved and has a new career after racing. We have just updated the look and function of the site so take a visit over and see what is new. We are trying to get caught up on all the success stories and our new layout and look should help.
It was a beautiful Easter Sunday morning but it was a little too early for Monarch’s Reign to be up for a trail ride. He fell asleep on his saddle as his mom tried to tack him up in the trailer. See the photos of our ride and our Easter/birthday party that we enjoyed when we returned to the farm on our 2011 Outings & Training Photos page under Training Thoroughbreds.
We have two more days of training notes for Imatexan posted under our Training Thoroughbreds menu above. Both Imatexan and Spot Run are doing extremely well with their training. Tomorrow we will be posting the diary that Katelyn has been keeping about what she is learning while training Spot Run.
Go to Imatexan Begins Her Training to start reading about retraining a horse directly from the race track. Then continue on to Imatexan’s First Week in Training to see photos and videos of yesterday’s and today’s training sessions.
