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Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: Building a Foundation of Trust Through Training

The Thoroughbred is an amazing horse. They truly are the most intelligent and hard-working horses out there. There is just something about sitting on the back of an animal bred for speed and witnessing them trying to figure out this new life and being a willing participant in all the stuff we ask them to do.

My last update on my lovely 2024 Makeover hopeful, Mr Nobility, was a frustrating mess consisting of everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Success Stories: Exceeding Expectations With Let’s Get It Did

After riding and competing on ponies, Camden Conway was ready to step up to a horse. After a lot of thinking, Camden’s father concluded that adopting a Thoroughbred would be the best course of action to find Camden a new horse.

In 2021, Camden received her new horse as a Christmas present. Let’s Get It Did is a 2018 bay mare who ran a total of three times at Woodbine. Camden’s father adopted her from LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Chelsea Whalen Cambi Lion OTTB off-the-track Thoroughbred ex-racehorse retraining aftercare hunter jumper competition show Freda Jessen career retired

Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Success Stories: A Racehorse’s Journey to the Hunter Jumper World

Chelsea Whalen previously had some experience training and retraining horses but had never worked with an off-the-track Thoroughbred. She embraced the challenge of transitioning a former racehorse into a Hunter Jumper. Chelsea found her perfect match at New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program. Many of the horses that go to New Vocations are put into a retraining program for a new discipline when they arrive.

MyRacehorse, Seize the Grey, 2024 Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes

Thanks to Seize the Grey, MyRacehorse Now More Popular Than Ever

For a company whose business model focuses on selling an experience to members of the general public, there is no better way to get your name out there than by having that experience broadcast on national television.

Thoroughbred Makeover Diary: A Positive and Successful Experience for Scout

My only goal for a horse’s first competition is for the experience to be positive. All decisions are made to keep the horse comfortable and build his confidence in us and this new life. Horses never forget their first time at anything. It’s during the first encounter that they make a decision of whether a new activity is good or bad. If they have several good experiences initially and then something negative happens, they have a positive foundation to rely on.

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