Retiring Its Over- It Takes a Village

Its Over, a four year old gelding, ran for Wasabi Ventures Stables (WVS) from April to September of 2022. At that point, he was claimed away but continued to be tracked by us. Fast forward to May 16, 2023, when Its Over’s owner and trainer decided to part ways, and,

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Retiring Frost Warrior

Wasabi Ventures Stables purchased Frost Warrior at the OBS October Yearling Sale. She then headed to Zoe Valvo at the Middleburg Training Track to begin her race training. She ran in WVS silks from August 2020 until October 2022. She competed at several tracks for three of their trainers: Jesse

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Meet the Aftercare Ally- NEER North

In March, I started a new article series called Meet the Aftercare Ally. With these articles my goal was to ask owners, advocates, program directors, etc. to talk about their experiences both with racing and aftercare. After sharing two of these interviews, it occurred to me that in order to

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Ria Update- Happy, Healthy, and Relaxed

Many thanks to Lauren, Ria’s forever friend, who shared this update. Whew! It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a general update on Ria for The Horse Fund! I didn’t make as much progress with her over the summer as I would have liked, as I have a terrible

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Play Update- Cantering Begins

Many thanks to Grace for providing this update on Play, as she continues her journey to the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover. New skill- cantering Things with Play have been going great! We have been doing a lot of trotting, and April 1st we started to canter. She has been

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Meet the Aftercare Ally- Mike Dzik

For the third installment of this series, I interviewed WVS club member and a key donor to The Horse Fund, Mike Dzik. While the questions were similar to the two previous interviews, this one is presented as a podcast. To learn more about Mike and his passion for thoroughbred racing

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