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For For For all all all the the the exciting exciting exciting details details details visit visit visit www.fantasylanestable.com www.fantasylanestable.com www.fantasylanestable.com PA Leading the Way in Responsible Racehorse Retirement By Nikki Sherman The month of June featured two $100,000 stakes events in Pennsylvania, the New Start Stakes for PA-Bred fillies at Penn National Race Course and the Turning for Home Stakes at Parx Racing, that not only showcased quality racehorses, but together spotlighted an important cause for horsemen – what happens to their horses when they can no longer race. Turning for Home Inc. was established in 2008 by the Penn- sylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and assists the horsemen of Parx Racing by placing eligible horses at Partner Farms that are capable of rehabilitating, retraining and rehoming Off Track Thoroughbreds (OTTBs). The organization has assisted over 1,800 horses in just eight years, and is so effective that the Pennsylvania Horsemen’s Benevolence and Protective Asso- ciation at Penn National Race Course consulted with Turning for Home when creating their own program in 2013 – New Start for Horses. “Pennsylvania is leading the way in responsible racehorse retirement,” says Danielle Montgomery, Program Administrator for Turning for Home. “I’ve had owners who have said they want- ed to come here from California to take advantage of the PA-Bred program but worried about what would happen to their horses after retiring. It’s just part of their culture out there. Our program RUSTLER HUSTLER impressed them so much that they started breeding and racing before retirement and include stakes winners Phil Dancer and PA-Breds and are now some of our biggest financial donors.” Rustler Hustler, who is the program’s leading PA-Bred mon- More than one-third of the horses assisted by Turning for ey-earner. The handsome chestnut gelding garnered more than Home and New Start are PA-Breds – 534 and 125, respectively – $500,000 in a career that included three stakes victories, one of especially since owners traditionally keep their PA-Breds in the which was the first stakes victory for trainer Marya Montoya, state to compete for the enhanced purses. PA-Breds in Turning owner David Wright of Waldorf Racing Stable and jockey Jorge for Home earned nearly $30 million for their racing connections Vargas Jr. “Rustler Hustler was a great horse with a cool personality. I continued to follow him even after he was claimed,” remembers Montoya. “When I heard he got hurt, I reached out to Turning for Home because he deserved the chance for a safe retirement after he had been good to so many people.” New Start and Turning for Home collaborated with the re- tirement of another PA-Bred named Major Highway, who split his races between Parx and Penn National while winning nine races and earning more than $400,000. “The Major is living a life of luxury now. He’s down in Georgia with Erin Collins, who helped break him as a baby,” says New Start Program Coordinator Lauren Zagnit. “If you have a nice PA- Bred then you’ve made a lot of money, so we really appreciate when everybody involved with a horse steps up and helps out with one of our horses. I wish everyone would follow our program. Nikki Sherman (2) RUSTLER HUSTLER continued on page 4 PA THOROUGHBRED REPORT 3 RESPONSIBLE RACEHORSE RETIREMENT continued from page 3 I think Pennsylvania should be applauded for what it has set up through breeding. But while we’re ultimately breeding for race- at Penn National and Parx.” horses, we also try to stay with good bloodlines so that if they This October, approximately 500 OTTBs will compete for don’t have any ability on the racetrack, they could still go on to $100,000 in prize money in the Retired Racehorse Project’s be sporthorses,” says Lyman. “Our goal with our racehorses (RRP) Thoroughbred Makeover, Presented by Thoroughbred is to be allowance or stakes level. We’re not into the claiming Charities of America. The much-anticipated event at the Ken- game. We watch them grow up from babies and love their per- tucky Horse Park will feature Thoroughbreds that have less sonalities so we don’t want to see them fall down the claiming than one year of retraining in 10 disciplines. Entries are still ladder.” being accepted by the RRP, but so far 36 are PA-Breds. One of Bradley is currently retraining a PA-Bred half-brother to those horses is Graced, who was responsibly retired by racing six-time stakes winner Roadhog named Devil’s Pool. “I per- trainer Kathleen Dibben and who will retrain him herself for the sonally came to the track to pick him up and it has been such competitive trail class. a rewarding experience with him,” she says. “Now it’s a year “Graced has been retired sound rather than drop down later and he was successfully rehabbed from the ground up. in claiming price,” notes Dibben on her blog chronicling their People see him jumping and can’t believe he came back from journey to Kentucky. “This is a horse that understands racing a condylar fracture.” and likes to win! He has exceeded all expectations since we A surge of sporthorse riders are also now looking towards claimed him for $4,500 two years ago. He has run himself the Thoroughbred, including specific pedigrees such as Con- out of conditions and if I run him where he can’t be claimed, gressionalhonor, Jump Start, Power by Far and Talent Search, the horses that he will face are so good that he stands a good the latter having impressed Lauren Zagnit of New Start. And chance of not winning again and getting discouraged. He owes a few years ago, Maui Meadow Farm retired a homebred son me nothing, and I owe him a great rest of his life. So I entered of Congressionalhonor named White Reef who is now training the Thoroughbred Makeover and I will do what I always do with with four-star eventer Ryan Wood. retirees, just with more focus.” “People just love the Congressionalhonors.