TRF’S Phantom on Tour, a Derby Museum Star, Euthanized at 24
Beloved TRF retiree Phantom on Tour, who for eight years, starred as a living exhibit at the Kentucky Derby Museum in Louisville, was euthanized on January 29 at the age …
TRF’s Second Chances program in Maryland goes the Distance
Submitted by Sarah Stein, TRF Second Chances program manager at Sykesville Correctional Facility, MD Alex Wooten graduated from the six-month Second Chances Program in June, 2017. He continued to work …
TRF Launches 2017 Hay Drive with $50,000 Matching Gift Challenge
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) has secured a $50,000 matching gift challenge from the Geoffrey Hughes Foundation (GHF) to launch its 2017 Hay Drive. The GHF will match every gift …
With TRF As Her Platform, Teen’s Inner Beauty Stands Out
By Francis LaBelle Mary Boucher is only 14 years old, but she has already developed a keen sense of responsibility, compassion and humanity, not to mention her need to take …
Inmates find hope in work with retired racehorses
Story originally appeared in the Indy Star Matthew Ziliak doesn’t like to be messed with. Neither does Aly’s Wildcat, a retired racehorse that Ziliak helps care for on a western …
TRF Receives Gift to Cover Annual Farrier Expenses
The Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation has donated $85,000 to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Farrier Fund to cover the organization’s 2017 hoof-care expenses. The TRF established the Farrier Fund in 2015. …
Mercer County Rescue Update
By Fran LaBelle It never ceases to amaze how quickly mistreated horses can make a full comeback with patience, care and a whole lot of love. This has been true …
‘Horses convert the toughest inmates’
By Susan Salk on October 21, 2016 Three decades having passed since he jackhammered concrete floors of an old dairy barn to make room for horses, Jim Tremper now looks …
Mercer County Horses Thriving at TRF
By Sue Finley Two months after being rescued from a dire neglect case in Mercer County on a farm leased by trainer Maria Borell and her father, the six horses …
TRF takes 6 hungry, abandoned horses into herd
By Susan Salk on June 29, 2016 Silver Cliff and Z Camelot, two Thoroughbreds discovered in a herd of abandoned horses linked to a Breeders’ Cup-winning trainer, were officially released …
TRF Second Chances horses show inmate a new path
by Susan Salk, Off Track Thoroughbreds Ocala, FL – A former inmate who had lost almost everything when she was sentenced to four years in a Florida jail found “some …
TRF Horses help ex-inmate find love, career, hope
by Susan Salk, Off Track Thoroughbreds A young woman who learned to ride and care for horses while participating in a prisoner/OTTB program at the Lowell Correctional Institution of Florida …
These Horses Give Prisoners a Second Chance
Published on Jun 22, 2015
Some inmates in the Maryland state prison system are hoping to make their lives after prison better by working with retired racehorses. The prisoners benefit from learning new skills as well as the compassion and patience it takes to work with the horses. Studies have shown that programs like these help decrease the likelihood that an inmate will return to prison.
PRODUCER/EDITOR: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo
VIDEOGRAPHERS: Kathryn Carlson and Gabriella Garcia-Pardo