Horse Careers

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As part of our Season 5 effort to celebrate the journey of Thoroughbreds before, during, and after their racing careers, Foal Patrol extends a huge thank you to the Retired Racehorse Project for a wonderful Season 5 partnership. Enjoy our last installment of #SecondCareerSaturday:

For our final #SecondCareerSaturday, the Retired Racehorse Project would like to take the opportunity to thank Foal Patrol fans for coming along for the ride all season! You’ve witnessed the beginning of a racehorse's life on Foal Patrol, and we’d like to invite you now to continue to follow the journey of the Thoroughbred as former racehorses transition to life as sport or recreational mounts.

We’d love to have you join us this October at the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium at the Kentucky Horse Park, October 12 to 15. Watch hundreds of recently retired racehorses compete in ten different riding sports and contend for the overall title of Thoroughbred Makeover Champion. Enjoy training demos, a seminar series, vendor fair, and horse sale, as well as the competition! 

For more information, visit TheRRP.org.

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This week's #SecondCareerSaturday on Foal Patrol in partnership with the Retired Racehorse Project comes to you a day early. Enjoy!

Few breeds of horse are as well-documented as foals than a Jockey Club-registered Thoroughbred. Learn more about how foals are registered, and how that helps set them up for success in racing and in their second careers, from our friends at the Retired Racehorse Project: https://bit.ly/racehorsereg

With one post left in the season, remember to check out the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram next week for our final #SecondCareerSaturday.

As part of our Season 5 celebration of the Thoroughbred before, during, and after the track, we partnered with Therapeutic Horses of Saratoga (THS), a nonprofit organization with the mission to rescue and retrain retired racehorses. In our sixth and final installment of the season, meet Cut Me Loose, now called "Copper," and learn more about the 5-year-old gelding's inspiring story of survival and healing.  

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Happy #SecondCareerSaturday on Foal Patrol in partnership with the Retired Racehorse Project. We hope you enjoy this week's post:

Who are you cheering for in the Belmont Stakes? Meet a few OTTBs who also ran in stakes races at the Big Sandy: Build to Suit in the Commentator & Granny’s Kitten in the G1 Belmont Derby Invitational! They launched their second careers at the Thoroughbred Makeover!

Remember to check out the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram every Saturday during the season for more #SecondCareerSaturday.

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Welcome back to another #SecondCareerSaturday on Foal Patrol in partnership with the Retired Racehorse Project. Enjoy this week's installment:

Now that all five foals are on the ground, we can’t help but wonder who they will become! Will they grow up to be six- (or seven-) figure sales horses? Will they become stakes winners? Will they find second-career success after racing?

Any one of these would be markers of a successful breeding, but a lucky few become all three — like Imperative, who competed at the 2021 Thoroughbred Makeover. A $325,000 yearling purchase, he went on to a long and successful racing career, earning over $3 million… and now he is competing in dressage. Thoroughbreds can do it all!

Remember to check out the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram every Saturday during the season for more #SecondCareerSaturday.