Want to adopt or retire a Racehorse?
These California racehorse retirement homes often have
horses available to adopt and might be able to take in a retired
Thoroughbred runner:
California Equine Retirement Foundation
Thoroughbred Friends Horse Rescue
Responsible California breeders often retire their runners on their own farms or find situations where their horses live a great life after their racing days are over. If you have a good story about your retired horse we would love to add it to our volume of short stories.
Email your stories to: horseretirement@ctba.com
Keith Card responded with this story about Linda Card:
"Linda Card is a home
bred of 1985 by Noble Monk out of Pick Up Your Cards
by Piaster.
She was really a 'laid back' youngster until she went to the track as a racehorse. She figured out why she was there and became very aggressive, always trying hard to win. This attitude served her well in her racing career. Her first stakes race was on July 4th in Pleasanton, which she won by a nose. She ran a few more time up north and then came south. We entered her in the first 1990 Cal Cup Distaff which she won handily. She won the Fleet Treat at Del Mar and ended her career with earnings around $400,000.
Linda became a brood mare after retiring from the race track. She has had six foals and unfortunately did not produce any runners as good as she was. She had a hard time delivering the last few foals so we gave her to Scoop Vessels as a baby sitter. She is in charge of a pasture full of yearling fillies and seems to love her latest occupation." Keith Card
Bob Black Jack...
His sire, Stormy Jack's grandmother, Pirate's Serenade is still alive in Rancho Santa Fe where she has been pensioned by her surviving owner. She's 26. She broke down 10/26/86 at BM. The Arnold's own and have taken great care of her.
She isn't to partial to people but we get along pretty well... She still can see but does have a few vision issues. She's at Rancho Paseana and they have a stall they bring her in to most nights and her paddock has grass and a shade overhang.
What makes it interesting is Pirate broke down very badly when she was four or five (suspensories and sesmoids) and although she was not fashionably bred, and running in claiming races, her owners saved her. She gets around surprisingly well, using a rocking horse gait to compensate for the grapefruit sized ankle and fused pastern that is not where it's supposed to be.
We've been feeding her carrots every weekend for over four years and it's amazing how excited she gets and how fast she can move when motivated.
Except for her owners who
loved her dearly and saved her, there would be no Stormy Jack and no Bob
Black Jack." Joe Shell
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