The Retired Racehorse Project (RRP), a 501(c)3 charitable organization working to increase demand for Thoroughbreds beyond racing, today announced format changes to its flagship event, the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, beginning with the 2025
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The 2024 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, is less than two months away, and final entry is complete! View the full class at TheRRP.org/entries, and read on to take
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The Retired Racehorse Project (RRP) announced this week that 396 trainers have been accepted to the 2024 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America. The world’s largest and most lucrative retraining
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The Retired Racehorse Project (RRP) announced today that applications for the 2024 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, are now open for submission. The application period closes at 5 PM
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Did you, too, find yourself thoroughly inspired by last month’s Thoroughbred Makeover finale? Featuring a huge variety of disciplines, from eventing to barrel racing to polo, freestyle, field hunters, dressage — you name it, and
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Did you miss out on watching the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover last month? I did too, but never fear — join me in putting this on in the background all day on this fine
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The Finale Championship of the Retired Racehorse Project’s 2023 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, welcomed the five top-placed horses after two days of preliminary competition to compete for additional
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Preliminary competition in all ten offered disciplines at the 2023 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, is now complete, giving us our winners who will be honored at tomorrow evening’s
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The 2023 RRP Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium at the Kentucky Horse Park is still a couple of months away, but now, we can tell you with some certainty that a whopping 404 horses will
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Well, here we are again! Back on the Makeover path for 2023! Against my better judgement, I found myself hitting the “Submit” button on the Makeover application. I was delighted, and a touch worried, to
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The Retired Racehorse Project (RRP) announced today that 512 trainers have been accepted to the 2023 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America. The world’s largest and most lucrative retraining competition
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Recognizing the growing need to champion an underserved population of the Thoroughbred industry, the Retired Racehorse Project (RRP) announced Friday that the 2023 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, will
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬 (@commonwealthsaddles) So you’ve purchased a new-to-you ex-racehorse (or, you’re shopping for one at this week’s Thoroughbred Makeover!) and are eager to get kicking along
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Stable View (@stableviewaiken) The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) will host two championship shows in 2022: The T.I.P. Championships & Eastern Dressage Championships
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With The Makeover in the rear view mirror, we have all had a couple of weeks to reflect on what was one of the most unique and spectacular weeks of equestrian sport we have ever
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Thunderous Affair, trained by Lindsey Partridge, was selected by the panel of judges of the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America, as the 2020 Thoroughbred Makeover Champion, sponsored by Churchill
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Ten discipline winners from what was hailed as one of the strongest Thoroughbred Makeover competition years yet awaited results in a picture-perfect lineup at the Kentucky Horse Park this evening at the Thoroughbred Makeover and
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The culmination of ten months — or, for the 2020 horses, almost two years — of hard work came to fruition today at the Kentucky Horse Park as the final day of preliminary competition at
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The Kentucky Horse Park was humming with activity today, with eight of the ten Thoroughbred Makeover disciplines running preliminary competition, in addition to the first round of the inaugural Thoroughbred Incentive Program Barrel Racing Championships.
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The first day of preliminary competition is in the books at the 2021 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium, with Dressage and Show Jumper taking the spotlight as the competition’s two most popular classes this year.
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Team Dappir Ridge is nearing the eleventh hour in our preparations for the Retired Racehorse Project “Mega Makeover”! With just over a week to go until we ship out to Kentucky, each of us are
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Retired Racehorse Project (@retiredracehorseproject) The 2021 Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Makeover is just around the corner, to be held Oct. 12 – 17 at the Kentucky
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With The Makeover being just over a month away, we are all busy preparing our OTTBs for their final outings, and polishing up areas that need improvement. Kelly Giunta and Robbie Jones are headed to
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