The Jockey Club is launching Thoroughbred Connect to save unwanted racehorses. This is a highly commendable action. Click here to read the news item from the Blood-Horse. Also, see my post “Forever Grateful” of May 14, 2011 that also appeared several weeks ago in the Blood-Horse.  

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A racehorse owner can easily lose track of where the animal goes after it is claimed or sold. As a result, he or she may find out too late that the horse went to a slaughterhouse. Classic stakes winners Exceller and Ferdinand would undoubtedly have been saved from such a ghastly destiny had someone who [...]

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The Globe and Mail has an article profiling the diversified and most recent entrepreneurial ventures of Frank Stronach, who is still going strong at age 78. No rocking chair for this Canadian industrial baron and North American racing impresario. “Stronach’s Next Big Play: Beef, Health Care, and Electric Boats”  

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