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Issue Three/Autumn 2017

After their racing career, many thoroughbreds are retrained for equestrian sport, but it seems there may also be a demand for OTTBs in the lesser known field of falconry. After racing in Australia, Dubai and Britain, Group 2 winner Caymans, now 12,  has found a new lease of life at Dartmoor...

The countdown to the 2017 RoR Awards night is underway and the list of eleven candidates in the running for the prestigious award of RoR Horse of the Year has been unveiled. The 2017 RoR Awards will take place on Monday 11th December, hosted by RoR Patron, Clare Balding. The...

First prize of £3,500 divided between winner and their local hunt Five former racehorses and their riders head to Aintree on Sunday 29th October to prove their versatility in the final of RoR Racing to Hunting Challenge. The horse adjudged to have best adapted to their second career in the...

Jockey Megan Fadlovich attended this year’s Thoroughbred Makeover presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America without a mount. The rider, who has earned more than $4.7 million in her career to date, helps retire racehorses when she’s not busy at the track. Although she’s currently recovering from an injury incurred in...

Charlie Caldwell entered the Thoroughbred Makeover presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America on a whim.   He was already retraining Thoroughbreds off the track for polo, and his friend and fellow polo player Clare Pinney convinced him to enter. After winning the initial round of the polo division Oct. 5, the...

During the 48 heures de l’obstacle race meeting that takes place at Auteuil racecourse on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th November, Au-Delà Des Pistes are due to organise an inaugural Parade of Champions. This event, that will take place just prior to the running of the Prix La Haye Jousselin,...

The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) today announced the 2017 recipients of its two non-competition awards, the T.I.P. Thoroughbred of the Year Award and the T.I.P. Young Rider of the Year Award, including a police horse who has worked crowd control at the Super Bowl. The Thoroughbred of the...

There are few more thrilling sights for horse-racing fans than the pack thundering around the final turn and charging down the home stretch in front of the grandstands toward the finish line. We love watching them race. We love seeing them parade by on their way to the starting line...

When Mandy Alexander heard millionaire Mister Marti Gras was looking for a second career late last year, she tried to tell herself she wasn’t interested. She had decided that she was taking a break from horse ownership and figured a horse with Mister Marti Gras’ long race record may not...