THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2018 A CHANCE TO AMERICAN-SIRED OFFSPRING DOT JRHA SELECT SALES by Alan Carasso CHANGE LIVES A smattering of horses on offer at next week’s JRHA Select Yearling and Foal Sale were purchased in utero at the Keeneland November Sale in late 2016 and 2017, respectively. To follow are brief pedigree notes on each of those horses. Monday, July 9, 2018 Hip 72, ylg, c, American Pharoah--Crisp, by Quiet American Consigned by Northern Farm $350,000 in utero ‘16 KEENOV – Consigned by Adena Springs (walking video) Crisp defeated future champion Blind Luck (Pollard’s Vision) into third in a sit-sprint renewal of the GI Santa Anita Oaks (video) and foaled this first-crop son of the 2015 American Watch the TDN’s Kelsey Riley talk about why she chose Triple Crown winner last May 5. The further female family TRF-Blackburn as her Mongol Derby charity, in this video, courtesy includes GISW Whywhywhy (Mr. Greeley) and MGSW of Godolphin and Engage Digital Partners. Additional footage Spellbinder (Tale of the Cat). Crisp was most recently covered by courtesy of The Adventurists. Deep Impact (Jpn). Cont. p6 (Click here) By Kelsey Riley Six months ago, Robert Godfrey didn’t know much about IN TDN EUROPE TODAY horses. Actually, he admits, he was nervous around them. CARROLL’S LABOUR OF LOVE NEARS FINISH None of that shows now. Sally Carroll is on the brink of retirement from her role with the Irish National Stud Breeding Course. Daithi Harvey catches up Godfrey, an inmate at the Blackburn Correctional Complex in with the unsung heroine. Click or tap here to go straight to Lexington, Kentucky, strokes Red, a strapping chestnut TDN Europe. Thoroughbred gelding, slipping him treats over the fence while a handful of other ex-racehorses mill about in the background. “Red has his own personality in this group. He’s outgoing and he likes to have fun,” Godfrey said. “He’s like the semi alpha in the group. But Red, he’s a good guy. A big, pretty horse, and I just like to work with him every day.” Red is clearly smitten with Godfrey, too, and in fact, the pair have more in common than immediately meets the eye. Each of them arrived at Blackburn, a minimum security prison on the edge of Lexington, in need of a second chance. Red, for one, found himself left behind in his first career--he raced twice, and trailed in last both times. A brief renaissance as a dressage horse bore similarly little fruit, but Red has now happily found his niche as a member of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s Second Chances herd at Blackburn. The Second Chances programs--of which there are nine across the country--give inmates at minimum security prisons the opportunity to work with off-track Thoroughbreds while serving their sentences. 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Programs like Second Chances, which sends its participants back into society with new skill sets and new mind sets, highlight a huge opportunity for the American prison system. Over 2.3 million Americans--almost a quarter of the world’s entire imprisoned population--are currently behind bars in a system that costs roughly $80 billion a year to operate, and that is only direct spending, not factoring in the indirect costs of incarceration. That figure looks more like $1 trillion. Devanei Miller with an off-track Thoroughbred at Blackburn And after all that, rates of recidivism run disturbingly high. A study conducted on prisoners at state prisons (like Blackburn) that were released in 2005 revealed that 77% were re-arrested by 2010, with 43% returning to prison. However, in 2013, the largest-ever analysis of correctional educational studies was published by RAND, and it revealed that prisons that run vocational programs like Second Chances, where inmates learn a skill, have recidivism rates 43% lower than prisons without vocational programs. Prisoners who received vocational training while incarcerated were deemed 28% more likely to find employment after release than those who didn’t receive training. The study also showed that while it costs $1400 to $1744 per inmate to run the programs, costs associated with recidivism run $8700 to $9700. Exact numbers for prisoners that partake in Second Chances are not readily available, but the nine prisons that run Second Chances programs (all minimum security prisons--no violent offenders) have experienced reduced recidivism rates. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • JULY 5, 2018 Blackburn cont. “I have a bit of land in Indiana and my family never really had Diana Pikulski, the TRF’s longtime executive director who horses, but now that I have this knowledge I’d like to adopt a recently retired after serving various roles within that couple horses,” he said. “I have two here that I was thinking if I organization, was involved in the development of Second could get them to agree to it, I’d take them with me.” Chances in the early 1980s and she said that while studies on Devanei Miller is another inmate who admitted he knew recidivism are a more recent phenomenon, positive feedback nothing about horses before the program, but now that he has after the first chapter of the program opened at the Wallkill learned more about the Thoroughbred business, he is interested Correctional Facility in upstate New York was almost immediate. in getting involved. “What we were told early on was that the incidences of bad “I would love to, honestly,” he said. “I didn’t know it was such behavior in the facility were much, much lower, or non-existent, a lucrative business. I’ve found out I was in the wrong business! with men who were in the program,” Pikulski said. Now that I know that I’d definitely like to figure out how to get I recently had the opportunity to visit Blackburn and meet the inside the horse business.” men in the Second Chances program. None of the four I sat Of the horses at Blackburn, he said, “They’re more docile and down and spoke with had had experience with horses prior to calmer up close. When you see them from afar they kind of look entering the program. All of them said they wanted to continue tough and scary, but when you get close to them, not at all.” their involvement with horses once they left. Linda Dyer runs the Second Chances program at Blackburn, and she said the positive effect of the horses on the inmates is WHAT WE WERE TOLD EARLY ON WAS evident pretty quickly. “I have some of them start out that have never been around a THAT THE INCIDENCES OF BAD horse before and they’re a little afraid of them,” she said. “It BEHAVIOR WERE MUCH, MUCH LOWER, takes them a week or two usually and they get used to them. OR NON-EXISTENT, WITH MEN WHO They start little bit by little bit. I have them learn to groom first and then pick their feet.” WERE IN THE PROGRAM. “They tell me all the time the horses relax them. They can tell Diana Pikulski a horse anything they want and the horse keeps that secret, so they talk to the horses a lot, too. You see them hugging them all the time and they’ll tell you, ‘these horses are really good for me.’” Godfrey was one of them, and he admitted it took him some time to gain confidence around the animals.