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Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: Back in the Saddle with Thalia

I like to view goals as steppingstones on a journey rather than a destination at which to arrive. This mentality has allowed for the ever-humbling qualities of some horses to be a smoother pill to swallow when life hands you lemons. Sometimes things just fall out of place no matter how much planning went into them. Sometimes, all that’s left to do is sit back and enjoy the lemonade. It’s in these times that we can often grow the most as horsemen and women.

Daring Destiny, who will continue to aim for the Thoroughbred Makeover, with Sarah and Katie

Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: Team Unicorn Making Lemonade From Lemons

Life happens — sometimes really fast and really hard. The farm where we were boarding our Dizzy is closing. Our team — our family — has to move. Because of where we all live, finding a central place to stay together was an impossible feat. It was determined that Dizzy would move closer to team member Katie as she was the one that had spent the most time in the saddle with him. With new jobs and new homes on the horizon, sadly teammates Skye-Anna and Shannon had to step down. Team Unicorn Training Club was threatening to totally dissolve.

Your Retired Racehorse Training Questions, Answered: Getting Started with an OTTB

In our second edition of the question-and-answer session about training off-track Thoroughbreds (OTTBs), we talk to Beverly Strauss, the executive director and president of Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA)-accredited MidAtlantic Horse Rescue, and Lisa Molloy, program director of TAA-accredited ReRun.

This session’s questions focus on getting a horse and transitioning them to life after racing with some things you should keep in mind when riding a horse soon after he retires from the track.

Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: ‘Pop Pop’s’ Love for Speed Inspires His Horse Training

Competition comes naturally to my teammate and father-in-law Oliver “Pop Pop” Keithly and he is not shy when it comes to speed. Pop Pop has over 15 years of motorcycle racing experience; his top speed was 165 MPH. He has raced his Buell 1200 and Suzuki 750 at Daytona International Speedway, Pocono Raceway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, NJ Motorsport Park and Summit Park. Pop Pop is “retired” from motorcycle racing now and has transitioned his passion for speed and excitement to horse racing and horse training!

Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: Enjoying Every Minute With Thalia

This year, America’s Best Racing and the Retired Racehorse Project will be sharing diaries from several trainers preparing for the 2019 Thoroughbred Makeover competition, scheduled for Oct. 2-5 at the Kentucky Horse Park. This diary is by equestrienne and horse racing industry professional Hillary Ramspacher, who shares how she came to acquire her filly Tapanista that she is training for the makeover.

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