Out 2 Pasture

Jamestown, Missouri
Contact Info: Robin Hurst
660-849-2369
hurstr@missouri.edu

Out2Pasture, operated by Dr. Robin Hurst and her husband Zac March is perhaps the TRF's most unique facilities. On a 120-acre farm nestled in the Ozark hills, Hurst and March were already rescuing needy and abandoned animals when they learned about the TRF and volunteered to take in TRF horses, as well.

Neither Robin nor Zac had any background with racehorses. Both are professors at the University of Missouri and Zac teaches at the college of veterinary medicine. He has put that association to good use.

Dr. Amy Rucker, the veterinarian in charge of the university's Equine Ambulatory Practice program helped arrange a joint project between the farm and the university, where students hone their skills by working on the Out2Pasture horses. With no racetracks in the state of Missouri, it is among the only opportunities for students to work with infirm thoroughbreds.

Out2Pasture Farms believes in the philosophy that "horses are meant to be horses." Therefore, pasture life with companionship is considered to be preferable to stalling. They make every effort to place horses in amicable herds, with specialized attention to introductory new horses.

Out2Pasture welcomed its first TRF horses in 2000 and normally has about 24 TRF retirees.