Protecting Racehorses for Second Careers

[OldDog]

This is a good article which posted up on BloodHorse.com yesterday.

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...second-careers

Steve, I bet CANTER and other similar organizations would love to have your endorsement if they don't already, and any mention of these groups when you're interviewing horsemen would really be appreciated.

[Travis Stone]

Horse retirement and aftercare should be a natural bi-product of everything in horse racing. It's sad people have to make a push for it.

At Louisiana Downs, we have nothing setup (right now) to assist with horse retirement. I am currently working to get something set, but who knows if it'll get the a-okay stamp.

That said, in the larger picture of everything horse racing, horse retirement won't save the game. Like I said, it should be something automatic and hopefully it can get to that point.

[my miss storm cat]

A reminder, for anyone who'd like to make a donation. For anyone who has ever thought "I really should do that someday" - maybe today could be the day.

A couple of minutes, a few dollars... it will help. We owe them that.

http://www.canterusa.org/

http://www.trfinc.org/