Thursday, May 9, 2013

Retired Racehorse Training Project - Get Ready to Ride

For all of you OTTB (off the track thoroughbred) lovers, here's a contest/project you won't want to pass up.  Retired Racehorse Training Project, an organization dedicated to increasing demand for Thoroughbreds off the track, is celebrating Derby weekend by accepting applications from trainers for its Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium. 

The Makeover will feature twenty-six trainers who select and train twenty-six Thoroughbred ex-racehorses throughout the summer in preparation for a public appearance at the RRTP Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium on October 5 and 6 at Pimlico Racecourse. Application forms must be completed no later than Friday May 17 at 5pm Eastern Time on the eve of the Preakness.

Applicant trainers may enter as professionals, amateur adults, or juniors. They will identify the equestrian disciplines in which they have achieved recognition, list experience working with racehorses and ex-racehorses, list references, describe the facilities where training will take place, share videos of themselves riding on horses they have trained, and identify any organizations, farms, or institutions that will be a part of their team. The RRTP Board of Directors will consider the need for diversity of discipline, diversity of trainer background, experience and reputation of applicants, connections of applicants to respected organizations and institutions, and skill level of applicants. The Board will conduct its own research to supplement the information provided in the applications and will not share or publicize its deliberations.

You can get additional information here.  

1 comment:

  1. I sent the link to my trainer and his wife (also a trainer, when she's not teaching at an elementary school). He trains TB racehorses here in Oklahoma and then retrains them for "civilian" jobs when they are done. Hunter/jumper is his other interest, but he has embraced dressage recently, to my benefit, as that is my interest. I hope he thinks about doing this.

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