 | Blackburn Correctional Complex
Once the TRF mission of horses helping people and people helping horses was established in New York at the Wallkill Correctional Facility, it was only natural that the prison farm program would spread to the place where the horse is king, the great state of Kentucky. Read More |
|  | Exceller Farm
While all TRF farms and facilities are important, there is something uniquely special about the work being done at Exceller Farm by manager Michele Oren. Oren's job is much more than that of a caretaker or someone entrusted with the duties of keeping her horses happy and well fed. Read More |
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 | Marion Correctional Institute
Another facility in the heart of horse country, the TRF farm at the Marion Correctional Facility in Ocala opened in 2001 and is the home to about 45 horses. Read More |
|  | Wateree River Correctional Facility
Few prisons in the country were a better fit for a TRF program than the Wateree River Correctional Facility in Rembert, South Carolina. The facility has plenty of land, is in the middle of horse country and already had several agricultural and vocational programs in place for the inmates. Read More |
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 | Montpelier Station
Montpelier, the home of James and Dolly Madison, has a new attraction for the thousands of tourists who visit each year. A 200-acre portion of the estate is now home to a TRF Farm run by Kim Wilkins. The first TRF horses arrived at Montpelier in the fall of 2003 and the farm will eventually be home to as many as 50 horses Read More |
|  | Out2Pasture
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. Read More |
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 | Maker's Mark Secretariat Center
Finding a safe haven for the thousands of Thoroughbreds, those not fortunate enough to go on to second careers as stallions and broodmares, is an age old problem for the racing industry. Read More |
|  | Wallkill State Correctional Facility
Wallkill is where it all began. In 1984, a gelding named Promised Road walked off a van and on to the grounds of the Wallkill Correctional Facility in upstate, New York, the first horse ever under the care of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. Read More |
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 | Newton Correctional Facility
Opened in the fall of 2005, the facility in Newton, Iowa will be the home for about 35 retired Thoroughbreds once the facility is complete. The farm is located about 40 miles east of Des Moines. Read More |
|  | Lowell Correctional Institution
Having helped hundreds of male inmates over the years go on to lead better, more productive lives, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation has taken the next logical step. Last October, female inmates at the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, Florida began working with TRF horses. The Lowell program marks the first time the TRF has been involved with a women’s prison. Read More |
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 | Putnamville Correctional Facility
Opened in 2007, Putnamville will care for 50 retired Thoroughbreds on a prison farm about 50 miles west of Indianapolis. A 14-stall barn was rebuilt by prisoners and prison staff before the horses arrived, using lumber from trees growing on prison property. Read More |
|  | James River Work Center
In 2007, the TRF opened its newest farm at a correctional institution, at the James River Work Center, a minimum-security facility in State Farm, Virginia. The inmates are sure to graduate from the program with impeccable horsemanship skills as they are being taught a Groom Elite program devised by Louisiana-based horseman C. Reid McLellan. Read More |
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