From the “Sport of Kings to the Kings of Sport.” It’s a catchy slogan to go along with a challenging concept of a competition. Steuart Pittman’s brainchild, The Retired Racehorse Project, has gone from a
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The entry list for Rolex has been set, and Thorougbred aficionados from all over have taken to poring over it for former racehorses who will be making their appearance on center line in a few
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Margaret Rizzo had been horse shopping for a few months with no luck and was starting to lose her good humor. Local horseman David Butts said he had a couple racehorses she could come see.
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The Retired Racehorse Project officially began accepting entries for the 2015 America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred Contest this week, with $100,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs by the top placed horses. The contest will
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This post originally appeared on Horse Nation. The Retired Racehorse Project’s annual banner event is getting a new home. For 2015, the Thoroughbred Makeover is moving to the world-class Kentucky Horse Park facilities in 2015,
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Anyone with experience in multiple equestrian disciplines knows there are numerous similarities in the foundations of training between each discipline. In the Retired Racehorse Project’s new docu-series, western trainer Dale Simanton travels from his ranch
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The time has come for us to check our savings accounts and the number of empty stalls in our barns, figuring out if there’s a way to add a new horse to the herd. We’ve
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With Icabad Crane slated to go as the last horse in yesterday’s America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred Contest at Pimlico Race Course, Phillip Dutton knew he had to pull out all the stops to take the
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After a long but thankfully uneventful journey back to Minnesota from the land of mouth-watering BBQ, startlingly large spiders, and Texas-sized hospitality, I feel both happy to be home and sad that the AECs are over.
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It’s that time of year, EN! The Retired Racehorse Project’s ever popular Thoroughbred Makeover — this year branded America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred Contest — will take place this weekend at Pimlico Racecourse, with 10 off-track
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Nobody shows up to Rolex like a thoroughbred and this year’s field is full of them. As we mentioned in our Rolex By the #s: Horse Stats post earlier this week, there are 24 thoroughbreds
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Yesterday the Retired Racehorse Training Project (RRTP) released the results of a study — the first of its kind — exploring the pipeline that connects Thoroughbred ex-racers with new careers. Owners of 4,200 OTTBs in
...» Read More!Well, after things went viral with SmartPak’s “Stuff Riders Say” series (You can watch Part 1 and Part 2 right here on EN!), videos began popping up all over the internet to show representation of specific riding
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