In This Issue: Letter from the President The Rolex 16 Score Sheet RRP Resource Directory Brand New Website Letter to OTIB Owners Thoroughbreds For All Kentucky Chris McCarron and NARA 2014 Thoroughbred Makeover Letter From the President Upcoming Events Steuart Pittman Booth at Rolex This is the Rolex CCI**** issue of our newsletter, so welcome to the place where 3-Day Event horses bred to race compete and win against horses bred to event. It's an April 24 - 27 incredible phenomenon that a talented trainer can go to the racetrack, pick up a Lexington, KY horse for very little money, and bring it to the pinnacle of a sport it was not bred for. It is the ultimate proof that Thoroughbreds are the Thoroughbreds For most versatile, trainable, magnificent creatures on the planet, and that horse racing is actually good preparation All! Kentucky for second careers. April 25th Lexington, KY Did you notice that Retired Racehorse Training Project is now being called Retired Racehorse Project? RRP is our Kentucky Derby Party new trade name and RRTP is still our official name. Less is more in this case. We have grown beyond just for Charity educating the public about training OTTB's. We work to May 3rd increase demand in the marketplace and to build the Bethesda, MD bridges to second careers. Our brand new web site serves racing owners, OTTB owners, horse shoppers, and service providers. Our Thoroughbreds and news and educational content has expanded and we are facilitating the placement Wine For All! of many more horses. Take a look around at retiredracehorseproject.org. June 14th We look forward to seeing lots of you Friday night at our Thoroughbreds For All Davidsonville, MD Kentucky event with New Vocations. It's a thrill to have Boyd Martin, Linda Zang, Lynn Symansky, Donner, Cathy Weischhoff, Daniel Clasing, Nuno Santos, The Thoroughbred and sizzling hot jockey Rosie Napravnik and so many of the riders of Makeover: Thoroughbreds at Rolex joining us. Feel free to horse shop with us and find your next prospect from New Vocations. A Marketplace & National Symposium Also put October 4 and 5 on your calendar to join us at the Thoroughbred Oct. 4 - 5 Makeover: a Marketplace and National Symposium in Baltimore at Pimlico Race Course. It will be horse heaven for Thoroughbred lovers. Pimlico Racecourse Baltimore, MD Score Sheet for the Rolex 16 These are the entries that can really run. They started out as racehorses. Mark their results and cheer them on. Go to www.retiredracehorseproject.org for the stories about where these horses came from and how they were acquired. Scores Horse Name Rider Cross Pinny Jockey Club Name Owner Dressage Country Stadium Final Madison Park Kyle Carter (CAN) 14 Magic Retribution (WA) Rider and Jennifer Carter Mensa G Michael Pollard (USA) 17 Merisa G (KY) Rider, Chuck and Peggy Moore 21 Here's to You Emily Beshear (USA) Supplize (KY) Deep Purple Eventing 22 Pirate Meghan O'Donoghue (USA) Pirate's Gold Star (IL) Rider Parker James Alliston (GBR) 25 Eastside Park (NJ) Rider Irish Rhythm Rachel McDonough (CAN) 26 Daniel Alexander (ON) Rider Shiraz Colleen Rutledge (USA) 29 Bold and Burley (FL) Rider Houdini Katie Frei (USA) 30 Rocky Times (WV) Rider Tsunami III Sally Cousins (USA) 34 Tsu Tsu Ro (PA) Rider Collection Pass Kate Chadderton (AUS) 35 Collection Pass (PA) Rege Dvorsky Anthony Patch lainey Ashker (USA) 39 Alex's Castled ream (NJ) Rider Expedience Kaitlin Spurlock (USA) 47 Aye Promenade (WV) Rider Exponential Jessica Phoenix (CAN) 52 War Buckaroo (ON) Rider and Joel Phoneix Ziggy Rachel Jurgens (USA) 53 Ziggy's Berry Boy (MD) Rider Relentless Pursuit Dana Widstrand (USA) --- 57 Super Rover (IL) Rider Sir Rockstar libby Head (USA) --- 74 Sir Rock (KY) Rider Retired Racehorse Resource Directory Do you provide a service that moves Thoroughbred In addition to the online version, this national directory will racehorses into second careers or retirement? If so, go to be organized by region and state and 10,000 copies will be www.retiredracehorseproject.org and enter your organization, printed and distributed through racetracks and equestrian farm, or business. venues. Listings are free. Deadline to enter your information is June 7, at the start of the Belmont Stakes. SHOWCASI NG AM ERICA'S BEST HORSE Read the full report on RRP's 2013 Thoroughbred Makeover and Notional Symposium at Pimlico. > Click here for the full report! Feat ured News • Program Announced for 2014 ''Thoroughbreds For All Kentucky" Event 01 Rolex Tr.lsyeor'sThorOV9hbredsForAlleve"'lstorlln6upw,lI lnciude:OlympIC Brand New Website www . RetiredRaceh 0 rseProj ect. org Demand for RRP to step up and serve the 150,000 owners of Thoroughbred ex-racehorses has been unrelenting and the old web site was not up to the task. RetiredRacehorseProject.org is a masterpiece of design and function that Julie Magruder of Green Pasture Design and Cheryl Microutsicos of Wow! Graphic Designs have toiled over for months. Here is a brief introduction. Horse Listings are free and heavily trafficked. All ages, all levels of training, and all OTTBs are welcome. Resource Directory has entry portals for Racing Owners, Horse Shoppers, OTTB Owners, and Service Providers. Find nonprofit placement organizations, trainers, agents, racetracks, consignment sellers, and retirement farms, as well as how-to articles and advice. Advice section covers Care and Nutrition, Training, Selecting Prospects, Soundness, Bloodlines, and Track Life News includes articles about RRP, by RRP, and Thoroughbred articles of interest to OTTB owners. Events has not only all the details about upcoming and past RRP events, but also a calendar with shows, events and clinics for Thoroughbreds in second careers across the country. Second Careers has pages devoted to eventing, polo, dressage, hunter/jumper, foxhunting, barrel racing and other games that you and your OTTB can play with links to the organizations that manage those sports. The Store has RRP logowear that you can order online and have shipped to your door. RRP TV includes videos from RRP training clinics, Bloodline Brag is the internet's only .... a •.au'''''''' of Thoroughbreds in second careers. Enter your h{'\r_=~""-nrl search by pedigree for second career talent and ag;;PJlHJ)llSihnnelnts www.RetiredRacehorseProject.org riding Thoroughbreds the next day around the Rolex cross Thoroughbreds country course? Stop by either the RRP booth or the New Vocations booth to see if tickets are still available, or go to eventibrite.com and type in Thoroughbreds For All. It's $35 for dinner and For All Kentucky the show. Friday, April 25, 5:30 pm West Wind Farm Chris McCarron & 4787 Haley Road, Lexington, KY North American Racing Academy What could be better than Boyd Martin, Linda Zang, and Lynn Sunday April 27, 9:00 am Symansky evaluating recent New Vocations arrivals as prospects for dressage and eventing? Maybe an appearance by Thoroughbred Training Center sizzling hot jockey Rosie Napravnik on her OTTB Sugar? 3380 Paris Pike, Lexington, KY Maybe a performance by Lynn on Donner, the Maryland claimer who has launched Lynn to the top of the eventing Hall of Fame Jockey Chris McCarron and students from world? Maybe a dressage demo by Nuno Santos on Ken's his jockey school will demonstrate how to gallop a Kitten, the elasticized equine dancer by top racing sire Kitten's racehorse and discuss life at the track. Tickets are Joy? How about watching Daniel Clasing and Steuart Pittman available for $10 per person at the RRP and New as catch riders on recently retired racehorses? Good food? Vocations booths or at eventbrite.com by typing in Cash bar? Horse shopping? Appearances by the folks Thoroughbreds For All. Thoroughbred Makeover A Marketplace & National This IS a teaser to make you mark your calleI1:daf~..~ . or to make you become a sponsor... or to pick up a Thoroughbred off the track and or the Marketplace ... or to put together a team America's Most Wanted Thoroughbred Contestl itors will bring OTTBs at any level of day and keep them on site through the weekend ooltli:l"lfr<ll buyers and adopters to evaluate. Each horse will and will be announced on the week before Pimlico's UD<d.cI~ a veterinary inspection upon arrival and notes will be Preakness Stakes. uu;:on:u online with the horse's catalogue entry. Each horse will in the main arena on the track to perform at a Demonstrations ed time. Be sure you are on our email list and Organizations representing disciplines in which following our Facebook page to get details about participation. Thoroughbreds excel will showcase their sports. Eventing, dressage, jumpers, hunters, foxhunting, polo, and barrel America's Most Wanted Thoroughbred Contest racing are for sure. We are working on chariot racing, driving, Ten teams representing ten jousting, roping, reining, team sorting, and track ponying. Are disciplines will compete for we missing any? the America's Most Wanted Thoroughbred title. Each Seminars team will include a racing Indoor topics will include The First 100 Days, Racehorse partner, a trainer, sponsors, Reality Check, The Trainers Forum, and Maryland Racing: and a racehorse embarking Where Horses Come First. In-barn topics include Selecting on a new career. High Prospects, Soundness Issues, Holistic Health, and Saddle Fit. profile partners are being And then in the Sponsor Fair will be a Sponsor Showcase area sought to attract public where products and programs are featured. attention to the event. Fans will vote online and Sponsor Fair celebrity judges will Nonprofit placement organizations, racing organizations, contribute to the scores. farms , manufacters, retailers, and anybody else that supports Teams are forming now RRP's work will be there. Will you? .