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Kelsey Kreutzer wasn’t searching for another horse when she first saw Lonesome Pine. With four horses already at home in Kansas, she considered her herd complete. But one day while flipping through a horse magazine at work a feature on the ASPCA’s Find My Right Horse caught her eye.

Finding the motivation to write this evening after a very subpar day at our show today was not easy. But such is life with horses … full of ups and downs. They’re not machines and they’re all entitled to a bad day here and there as long as you can put it in the rearview mirror and move forward.

Courage’s journey began with high expectations. A son of Speightstown born in 2017, he was a $350,000 purchase at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale, destined for success on the racetrack. After just three starts and modest earnings of $670, however, his racing career quietly came to an end. That’s when he found his true purpose.

Well, August is finally here. In the world of Thoroughbred Makeover trainers, there is a lot riding on this month. By the end of August, final entries are due, which means choosing your discipline for competition in October. For me, and probably for most others in my position, July was spent trying to determine exactly which disciplines would best suit my horses.

In late June, the small northern Idaho community near Coeur d’Alene was shaken by a tragic incident that claimed the lives of two firefighters and left another injured.

In the days that followed, Champions Retreat, a Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance-accredited organization in Hayden, Idaho, offered a quiet gesture of support to those most affected: an invitation for local first responders and their families to spend time with the retired racehorses that call the farm home.

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