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.
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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