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New Vocations Announces First All-Thoroughbred Virtual Horse Show

New Vocations announced today that entries have opened for its first All-Thoroughbred Virtual Horse Show.

Last month, the organization made the difficult decision to cancel its annual charity horse show due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual show will allow exhibitors with Thoroughbreds from all over the country to compete by simply filming their rides at the location of their choosing and uploading the videos for judging.

“This has definitely been a challenging year with all of our live events being cancelled, so we are excited to be able to launch the New Vocations All-Thoroughbred Virtual Horse Show,” said Anna Ford, New Vocations Thoroughbred Program Director. “We were very fortunate that the majority of our annual horse show sponsors graciously agreed to carry over to the virtual show. This kind gesture allows us to move forward with raising much-needed funds for our racehorse aftercare efforts while providing a way for Thoroughbreds to compete in many different disciplines.”

The unique virtual show will offer a variety of classes for Thoroughbreds, including hunter, jumper, pleasure, western and dressage classes. The traditional War Horse classes will also be offered for horses who have raced more than 50 times and/or accrued more than $100,000 in earnings.

The hunter/jumper and pleasure portion of the show will close on Oct. 23 and the dressage classes will close on Oct. 24. Show results will be posted in early November and all exhibitors will receive judges' cards with their scores and additional feedback.

To learn more about New Vocations' All-Thoroughbred Virtual Show and enter classes, visit virtualhorseshowseries.com/new-vocations.

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Entries Open for New Vocations Virtual Horse Show

With its annual in-person charity horse show cancelled due to COVID-19, New Vocations opened entries for its first All-Thoroughbred Virtual Horse Show Tuesday. Exhibitors from all over the country can compete by filming their rides at any location and uploading the videos for judging in the virtual show.

“This has definitely been a challenging year with all of our live events being cancelled, so we are excited to be able to launch the New Vocations All-Thoroughbred Virtual Horse Show,” said New Vocations Thoroughbred Program Director Anna Ford. “We were very fortunate that the majority of our annual horse show sponsors graciously agreed to carry over to the virtual show. This kind gesture allows us to move forward with raising much-needed funds for our racehorse aftercare efforts while providing a way for Thoroughbreds to compete in many different disciplines.”

For more information, including classes available, closing dates, and results, visit New Vocations.

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New Vocations Launches 11th Annual Breeders’ Cup Pledge To Support Aftercare

New Vocations has officially launched its annual Breeders' Cup Pledge. The program is seeking owners and trainers of Breeders' Cup contenders to pledge a percentage of their Championship earnings to support its mission to rehabilitate, retrain and rehome retired racehorses. This will be the 11th year for the fundraiser, which has raised over $650,000 to date.

“The need for our services continues to grow each year,” said Anna Ford, New Vocations Thoroughbred Program Director. “This year, in particular, has been very challenging due to the obstacles presented by COVID-19. Over the last decade, we have grown this Pledge into an extremely important fundraiser and we had our most successful year yet in 2019, raising over $130,000. We hope to have another record-breaking year in 2020 and are so grateful for the generous contributions of our donors who have continued to support and value our program. The Pledge is a great way for owners and trainers to give back and support New Vocations' aftercare efforts.”

Last year, over 50 Championship contenders had owners and/or trainers who pledged a percentage of their Breeders' Cup earnings. Of those, Vino Rosso, British Idiom, Sharing, Covfefe, Uni and Bricks And Mortar were victorious in their Championship races.

This year, New Vocations hopes to grow the list of pledgers to ensure yet another successful event and help raise the much-needed funding for daily operations that ultimately help retired racehorses transition into new homes and careers.

New Vocations will continue to seek pledges from owners and trainers until Nov. 5. All Pledge information can be found here or by contacting anna@horseadoption.com or andrea@horseadoption.com.

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New Vocations, T.I.P. Cancel Fall Horse Shows

New Vocations Racehorse has canceled its 2020 All-Thoroughbred Charity Horse Show, a dressage and combined test event, slated to be held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. Oct. 3. The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) followed suit and canceled its dressage and combined test championships, originally slated for Oct. 4.

“It was a difficult decision to cancel the October show, but we feel that the safety of our show team and exhibitors is the most important,” says Anna Ford, New Vocations Thoroughbred Program director. “It has been a struggle this year as all of our live fundraising events have been cancelled. However, we have some virtual events in the works that we hope to launch in the near future.”

Run concurrently, the two shows typically host more than 400 Thoroughbreds at the Kentucky Horse Park each fall.

“T.I.P. continues to explore consolation competition options for early 2021,” added Kristin Werner, senior counsel for The Jockey Club and coordinator of T.I.P. “We look forward to the 2021 championships next fall.”

Horses qualified and declared by the August 3 deadline for the 2020 championships will be eligible to participate in the 2021 events. A list of those horses is available at tjctip.com/About/CSDH.

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