“Keeneland is honored to host the Horse Racing Women's Summit, which promises to be a great day of discussion, reflection, valuable connections and fun. We look forward to celebrating the indispensable role women play in shaping our sport,” said Christa Marrillia, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Keeneland.

The morning's panel discussions include speakers: Allaire Ryan, Director of Sales at Lane's End Farm; Caroline Wilson, member of the SF Bloodstock team; Jill Gordon, owner of Highgate Sales; Dr. Kathleen Paasch, a veterinarian at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital; Kitty Day, owner of Warrendale Sales; Cherie DeVaux, a Kentucky-based trainer; and Meg Levy, owner of Bluewater Sales.

“How great is it that we get the opportunity to network and listen to all of the amazing women that comprise our industry?” said Gaudet. “I'm looking forward to discussing some key issues and also listening to how these women leaders were challenged and supported on their paths to their respective roles.”

Limited tickets to the event are available. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

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Question: What, if any, special considerations should owners have for wintertime hoof care?

Dr. Craig Lesser, Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital: Winter in Kentucky, aka mud season, can have some challenges when it comes to your horse's feet. Feet tend to start growing slower and are often saturated in mud without a chance to dry out. This can result in a variety of issues that you should keep an eye out for.

White line disease is a mixed anaerobic bacterial infection that occurs within the hoof wall. Mild infections can be picked up by your farrier and can be treated without much change in your horse's work. However. in more severe cases radiographs and large resections may be necessary to open the infected area up to oxygen and allow for debridement and treatment of the infection.

Bruises and subsolar abscesses are also very common in the winter due to the changes in weather and temperature. The hard to soft ground can soften feet and make them more prone to concussion-related injuries, and this constant swelling and contracting can open areas for infections to fester. Horses with abscesses present acutely lame and once drainage is established, they return to soundness quickly. However, it is very important to protect the abscess tract from filling back up with mud or your horse may re-abscess.

Retracted soles are often a problem with thin-soled feet. They result when mud builds up in the sole and eventually builds enough pressure to force the cornified sole up into the soft tissue structures of the sole of the foot. This can lead to seroma or abscess formation and if not treated properly they often lead to severe complications.

While we don't usually get much snow in Kentucky, horses in more northern regions can have issues with snow and ice building up in their shoes. The formation of large balls of ice on the bottom of a horse's foot can make it difficult for horses to walk. Many farriers will add snow pads to help with this, but nothing is as helpful as ensuring you pick out your horse's feet daily.

Horses with softened feet that are turned out in the mud are also more prone to losing shoes. An increase in the number of lost shoes as well as the decreased growth can make a farrier's job more difficult this time of year.

It is vital that you check your horse's feet daily and make sure to pick them out so they have a chance to dry and recover. If not, it could lead to some much scarier conditions such as canker, septic pedal osteitis, or even quittor.

Dr. Craig Lesser, CF graduated from Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2015. Following the completion of an internship at Anoka Equine, he moved to Lexington to complete a podiatry fellowship at RREH and has continued there as an associate. As an extension of podiatry, Dr. Lesser has an interest in lameness and imaging. 

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Jenkins had found First Commander, fondly known as Mattis, in early 2020 as she was on the hunt for a new OTTB project. She had lost her last Thoroughbred to a rare neurological disease which had resulted in some explosive behavior and was ready for a new challenge in a quieter package. Mattis seemed perfect, and as a bonus, he was eligible for the 2020 Makeover class.

The Makeover requires eligible horses to have made a start or entered a published workout within a certain timeframe in advance of the competition year, as its goal is to showcase off-track horses at the very beginning of their retraining. When Jenkins found him, Mattis hadn't yet begun his under-saddle retraining but he looked relaxed, sound, and happy jogging and cantering at liberty in the field and passed a pre-sale veterinary soundness examination. He seemed sweet, quiet, and like he'd be a gentle kick ride – the perfect antidote to the intense, highly sensitive horse she had just lost. She fell in love immediately and took him home to her South Carolina base.

“He just seemed like a big dopey gelding who was real cute,” she recalled. “He seemed like maybe not the best mover, but he was what I needed at the time.”

Most horse owners have had a run of bad luck with their horses, where one problem sidelines them, only to be followed by another. Jenkins' early months with Mattis were defined by such a run. He made the move to the warmer, damper winter in South Carolina and broke out with a painful bout of rain rot. When he recovered from that, he popped a splint. After the nagging splint calmed, he came up with a suspensory injury. As those periods of rest/recovery/return to work wore on, Jenkins would notice odd bursts of attitude changes in her formerly sweet gelding – an unwillingness to go forward, sometimes sprinkled with sudden and aggressive tantrums. A diagnosis of serious ulcers seemed initially to be the explanation, but the progress he'd made after treatment quickly plateaued. When he came back from his lay-up with the ligament injury, he was a different horse – and not in a good way.

“Then the wheels really fell off. All the mean personality changes really came back,” she said. “I figured something was wrong, so I asked my vet to x-ray his back. She was like, 'Let's just rescope for ulcers' and I said 'No. Something's wrong with this horse. He's five years old. This doesn't just happen.'

“I was at work and she texted me pictures of the x-rays and didn't say anything. We'd found the problem.”

The radiographs showed a serious case of kissing spines, the common name for impingement of the dorsal spinous processes in a horse's back. When seen on x-ray, horses' vertebrae have long fin-shaped projections at the top. These are covered with muscle and tissue to form the rounded shape we're used to seeing when we throw a saddle on. Normally, there should be a gap in between each fin in a radiographic image, the same way there are gaps on x-ray between human vertebrae because those spaces are filled with soft tissue which doesn't show up on a radiograph. In kissing spines, the fins of two or more spinous processes appear in the image to touch, creating painful pinching and friction.

With the advent of digital radiography strong enough to take imagery of a horse's back, kissing spines has become a more common diagnosis among riding horses in recent years. Thoroughbreds are thought to be at a slightly higher risk than other breeds, but the disorder does not seem to discriminate based solely on age or breed. Affected horses experience significant back pain and may demonstrate this in a variety of ways, including resistance to exercise, unnatural or asymmetrical movement as they try to minimize the need to move their back, or personality changes. Secondary limb injuries can also be seen in cases where the horse will move forward but does so awkwardly.

One of the go-to treatments for many practitioners facing kissing spines is a surgery called inter-spinous ligament desmotomy, in which the ligament between two problematic vertebrae is cut, allowing the bones to move apart and return to their correct position.

“He's not really a surgical candidate because he doesn't handle stall rest well. At all,” said Jenkins, who had struggled to keep Mattis from injuring himself or others during his ligament rehabilitation, even with heavy sedation. “They said, 'You can try turning him out for six months to a year and maybe he'll fuse and you can have a retired 5-year-old. Or, nobody's going to fault you for putting this horse down.'”

In despair, Jenkins posted on her Facebook page about her options. That's when she heard from the trainer who sold her the horse, suggesting she reach out to Dr. Chris Newton, partner and ambulatory veterinarian at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital.

Newton approached Mattis' case similarly to the way he approaches many other complex lameness cases – with the notion that the lameness problem a horse presents with is likely secondary to a longer-festering underlying cause, and with the idea that physical therapy can address that root cause long-term in concert with therapeutic drugs and (sometimes) farriery changes.

Prior to getting his veterinary degree, Newton grew up riding in Pony Club and eventing regularly. He still events alongside his veterinary practice, where he specializes in sport horse medicine, alternative medicine, physical therapy, and equine reproduction. His eventing experience has required him to understand dressage, and he has been able to combine some exercises from that discipline with his physical therapy approach to treating injuries in athletic horses.

Newton believes that veterinary understanding of kissing spines as a growing and recent problem may be influenced by our sudden ability to see it.

“Prior to the advent of digital radiography, we didn't even talk about it,” said Newton. “Luckily I'm with Rood and Riddle, which has access to pretty high levels of diagnostics. I began to shoot radiographs on all of my pre-purchases' backs, just as part of a study and would see a tremendous number of horses with impingement but who didn't have any pain.”

In fact, it's hard to know yet how many of those radiographic changes really are responsible for symptoms, and how many horses would x-ray the same way while appearing perfectly comfortable. Having a better system for imaging the soft tissues in a horse's back would help better define how active the problem is, but Newton said the types of machines that would be strong enough to make an examination of those tissues in an area as dense as a horse's back are probably a long way off for most equine veterinarians.

Newton's examination of Mattis did confirm significant back pain which coincided with the radiographic findings. In lieu of surgery, Newton injected Mattis' back muscles with a medication cocktail to reduce inflammation and cause mild numbing, and showed Jenkins how to use a set of long lines to encourage the gelding to stretch his head and neck down gradually, requiring him to lift slowly with his mid-back. A lifelong hunter, long lining was new to Jenkins, but she was willing to learn whatever she had to.

“It was amazing,” she said. “After his first injection, watching him move was incredible. He was a really nice mover, which I never would have known because he wouldn't go forward.

“Initially I was long lining him in the dark, in the rain. I would not miss a day.”

Unlike humans, horses can't be convinced to soldier on through physical therapy exercises that may initially cause pain or stiffness with a rational explanation about their long-term benefit, which is why Newton provides temporary pain relief while having owners work the muscles. The idea is the medication will wear off, but the horse's back and core muscles will get stronger in the interim, helping them hold proper posture. While repeated treatments may be needed, they should become less frequent as the horse's posture and gait improve, and eventually will no longer be necessary.

The physical work requires horses to stretch their head and necks down at the walk and trot, tightening their core and stretching their mid-back.

“In my opinion, [radiographic findings of kissing spines] is not the cause of pain, but it is the symptom of a hyperlordosis of the thoracic spine which primarily presents with neuromuscular pain and a progressive hyperlordosis due to inability to move the back,” said Newton. “So, accompanied with hyper-dorsoflexive physical therapy and pain removal, I have seen a significantly greater result than the surgical interventions that are currently being enacted.

“Just like treating carpal tunnel syndrome in humans, the surgical procedure, when not accompanied with occupational therapy, is fairly unsuccessful. The surgical procedure in horses not accompanied with physical therapy is fairly unsuccessful. I think that removing the pain and allowing the back to function in the anatomy that it has formed around since its fetal construction is a route we should go forward with in general.”

Now, a year after beginning the process, Jenkins said she has a different horse. Although Mattis never became a cuddly, in-your-pocket personality, his temperament is even and honest. She said he tells her the minute he encounters discomfort and trusts her to help them work through it together. He has discovered a love of the competition ring, adopting a focused and flashy effort there which he didn't have before.

Although dressage was completely new to Jenkins, she found herself entering both the show hunters and the dressage at the 2020 Makeover. The pair were the highest-placing amateur rider team in 2020 dressage, and were second in the show hunters in a five-horse final that was otherwise populated by professional riders.

In hindsight, Jenkins knows they climbed a mountain together – and that for many people, it would have been easier to move on to a different horse.

“I'm really stubborn,” she said. “That's probably a big part of it, and the other part is when we were having all these smaller problems, I didn't quite realize the bigger picture. Once I realized the bigger picture I thought, 'I can't have another horse die. If I can do anything to save him, I will.' My last horse, there was nothing I could do. With Mattis, I thought if I could give him a fighting chance, I'd do it. It's paid off tenfold because minus the terrible kissing spine, he's everything I wanted in a horse.”

Mattis and Jenkins plan to spend 2022 continuing in their home territory of show hunters, but also delve into jumpers and foxhunting, mixed in with their regular dressage work and occasional quiet trail rides. With the help of their physical therapy program, it seems the sky is the limit.

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The latest issue of the Back Ring is now online, ahead of the Keeneland January Sale.

The Back Ring is the Paulick Report's bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of, and during, every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

Here is what's inside this issue…

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• Lead Feature, presented by Gainesway: Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills makes five fearless predictions for the bloodstock market in 2022 in his “Making Claims” column.
• Stallion Spotlight, presented by New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc.: The New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. Stallion Season Auction is a crucial fundraiser for the breed organization each year, but the 2022 renewal reaches even further to help those recovering from the December tornadoes in Kentucky.
• Ask Your Veterinarian, presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Dr. Craig Lesser of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital explains what horse owners should take into consideration to protect hooves during the winter months.
• Pennsylvania Leaderboard, presented by Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: How Li'lbito'charm, a daughter of Smarty Jones, brought in six figures worth of Pennsylvania incentive earnings for her connections in 2021 without entering a single stakes race.
• First-Crop Sire Watch: Stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the Keeneland January Sale, including the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.

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The son of Smart Strike was named champion grass horse in 2007, which lead to a prolific stallion career that is only matched by some of the greats

“English Channel certainly went out on top,” read a statement from Calumet Farm. “He was the number-one turf sire for the past two years and you could consistently find his progeny on the board in the top turf races across the country.

“English Channel has meant so much to Calumet throughout the years and we appreciate all the breeders who also supported him.”

English Channel will be buried in the famed Calumet cemetery alongside many other champions from the farm's storied history.

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The latest issue of the PR Back Ring is now online, ahead of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

The PR Back Ring is the Paulick Report's bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of, and during, every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

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• Lead Feature, presented by Pyrois Media: Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills ranks the 20 best Keeneland November weanlings by on-track performance since 2014, a five-year span, ending with the 3-year-olds of 2021.
• Stallion Spotlight presented by New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc.: Chris Bernhard of Hidden Lake Farm discusses Fog of War, a Grade 1-winning son of War Front whose first foals arrive in 2022.
• Toast To Vino Rosso presented by Spendthrift Farm: Tanya Gunther of Glennwood Farm reflects on breeding Breeders' Cup Classic winner and Spendthrift Farm sire Vino Rosso, and spotlights the two Vino Rosso weanlings the consignment will offer in Book 1 of the Keeneland November Sale.
• Lesson Horses presented by John Deere Equine Discount Program: Bernard McCormack of Cara Bloodstock describes what the first broodmare he owned taught him about life.
• Ask Your Veterinarian presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Dr. Katy Dern of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital explains why broodmares are so prone to colic, and the common causes.
• Indiana Weanling Spotlight presented by Indiana Thoroughbred Alliance: Putting the spotlight on an Indiana-bred filly by the red-hot sire Not This Time, and the state-bred program where her buyer can reap the benefits.
• Pennsylvania Leaderboard presented by Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: A rundown of Pennsylvania's leading stallion award incentive earners with five crops of racing age or fewer.
• American Graded Stakes Standings presented by Muirfield Insurance: Catching up with the leading breeders by North American graded stakes winners following the Breeders' Cup.
• First-Crop Sire Watch: Stallions whose first crops of weanlings are represented in the Keeneland November Sale, including the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.

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Question: How common are enteroliths, and what causes them?

Dr. Katy Dern, Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital: While many of our colic patients make it clear within a few minutes of presentation to hospital that they will require surgery — high heart rate, unremitting pain in the face of sedatives and NSAIDS, or clinical signs of devitalized bowel – some patients make it more difficult to determine if surgery is indicated. Horses with enteroliths are often on that list.

Enteroliths are calculi (rocks) which form in the right dorsal colon and can cause partial or complete obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract. They are composed of struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate hexahydrate) and form when mineral deposition occurs in concentric layers around a central nidus. Although this central nidus is sometimes a foreign body (rope or metallic object), in most cases it is indistinguishable from the rest of the calculi.

Dr. Kathryn Dern

Although we don't know exactly why some horses form enteroliths and some don't, we do know that there are certain risk factors for enterolith formation. A review of 900 cases of horses with confirmed enteroliths determined that Arabians, Morgans, and American Saddlebreds are at an increased risk for developing enteroliths. Enteroliths were also found to occur more frequently in horses in California and regions of the Southwest. From a management perspective, the most important aspects of this retrospective analysis and other studies were that most patients with enteroliths had a diet which consisted of more than 50 percent alfalfa hay, and there was a significantly increased incidence of enteroliths in horses which did not have daily access to pasture grazing.

If your horses are part of the “at-risk” population, we recommend ensuring that the majority of their diets consist of pasture or grass hay, avoiding alfalfa-based products. Although the exact role of alfalfa in the formation of enteroliths is unknown, it is suspected that the higher protein content can result in a more alkaline pH in the colon, favoring enterolith formation. Alfalfa hay also has higher levels of magnesium and phosphorus, both of which are components of the typical struvite enterolith.

Enteroliths usually form in the right dorsal colon, which has a large enough diameter to accommodate the calculi while still allowing feed to pass through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. If the enterolith begins to move from the right dorsal colon into the transverse colon, or further abroad into the small colon however, it becomes lodged due to the smaller diameter of these parts of the GI tract. In some horses, the enterolith intermittently occludes the transverse colon, causing occasional mild colic signs which resolve with medical management (flunixin meglumine, intravenous fluids, etc). Once the enterolith becomes lodged in the transverse or small colon, it completely blocks the passage of feed material though the GI tract, causing colic signs.

Diagnosis of enteroliths in the patients with a history of chronic colic can be challenging. Abdominal radiographs (x-rays) are more reliable in diagnosing enteroliths which are in the large colon versus the small colon – presumably due to the increased diameter of the enteroliths in the large colon. Enteroliths cannot be imaged in an ultrasonographic examination and are rarely detectable on rectal palpation. For these reasons, a definitive diagnosis of enterolithiasis often requires surgery.

In the patients with persistent colic signs in which the enterolith has become permanently lodged in the bowel, timely surgical intervention is important. In these cases, the enterolith compresses the bowel wall, decreasing the blood supply and potentially causing weakened areas or areas of necrosis (tissue death), which can lead to fatal rupture of the transverse or small colon. To avoid this tragic outcome, surgery is recommended in horses with persistent pain in the face of sedation and analgesia (flunixin meglumine, etc).

Once in surgery, the location of the enterolith is determined and a pelvic flexure enterotomy is performed to completely empty the contents of the large colon. This procedure involves making a small incision in the bowel wall through which to empty the contents, and then instilling fluid into the large colon to help “flush” the enterolith to a location from which it can be safely removed. Multiple incisions are often required to both evacuate the contents of the colon and to remove the enterolith. If the enterolith is lodged in the small colon, an incision will be made into the wall of the small colon to facilitate enterolith removal. In some cases, the enterolith has compressed the bowel wall so severely that tissue death (necrosis) has occurred – in these cases the devitalized area of bowel needs to be removed.

Post-operative management involves intravenous antimicrobials, intravenous fluids, and a gradual refeeding program to ensure that the lining of the colon has time to recover from trauma and irritation caused by the enterolith. Fortunately, survival after surgical removal of enteroliths is high, with reports ranging from 92 percent to 96 percent. As with many colic cases, prompt referral and timely surgical intervention are the keys to a good outcome.

Dr. Dern is originally from Colorado and Montana. She attended Washington State University for her undergraduate work, and Colorado State University for her veterinary degree. Following graduation from CSU in 2012, she completed an internship at Peterson and Smith Equine Hospital in Ocala, followed by an internship at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital. After her internships, Dr. Dern completed a three-year surgical residency at The Ohio State University, while also earning a Master's of Science Degree. She became board certified in equine surgery in 2018 and has been the surgeon at Rood and Riddle's Saratoga hospital since 2017. 

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The latest issue of the PR Back Ring is now online, ahead of the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

The PR Back Ring is the Paulick Report's bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of, and during, every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

Here is what's inside this issue…

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• Lead Feature: Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills examines the leading stallions by year-to-year gain in mares bred, and how each horse in the top five took a unique path to get there.
• Stallion Spotlight Presented By New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc.: Molly Lightner on Honest Mischief, New York's most popular stallion of 2021 by mares bred.
• Toast To Vino Rosso Presented By Spendthrift Farm: Taking a closer look at two first-crop Vino Rosso weanlings at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.
• Ask Your Veterinarian Presented By Kentucky Performance Products: Dr. Rolf Embertson of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital discusses when and why a veterinarian might perform a C-section on a pregnant mare.
• Lesson Horses Presented By John Deere Equine Discount Program: Anna Seitz of Fasig-Tipton explains what working with champion Rags to Riches taught her about life.
• Ask Your Insurer Presented By Muirfield Insurance: Bryce Burton of Muirfield Insurance explains the options to insure an in-utero foal from a broodmare purchased at auction.
• Pennsylvania Leaderboard Presented By Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: Tracking the leading earners of Pennsylvania owner bonus incentive earnings heading into the fall.
• First-Crop Sire Watch: First weanlings cataloged in the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

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The latest issue of the PR Back Ring is now online, looking ahead to The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale.

The PR Back Ring is the Paulick Report's bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of, and during, every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

Here is what's inside this issue…

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• Lead Feature presented by WestWin Farm: Myra Lewyn looks back on the legacy of Normandy Farm, the home Man o' War's sire and dam, and how the farm's former residents have shaped today's racing and breeding landscape in the latest Kentucky Farm Time Capsule.
• Stallion Spotlight presented by New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc.: Sean Feld of Climax Stallions discusses Mr. Monomoy, a Grade 2-winning resident of Waldorf Farm in New York, whose first foals arrive in 2022.
• Ask Your Veterinarian presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Dr. Katy Dern of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital explains the rock-like enteroliths that can build up in a horse's colon and lead to colic.
• Pennsylvania Leaderboard presented by Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: A look at the 2-year-olds who are earning their connections the most money in Pennsylvania-bred and -sired incentives, led by the impressive maiden winner For the Dreamers.
• American Graded Stakes Standings presented by Muirfield Insurance: A rundown of the leading breeders by North American graded stakes winners, headed up by a close race between global powers Godolphin and Juddmonte Farms.
• First-Crop Sire Watch: Stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the Fasig-Tipton October catalog, including the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.

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Aftercare has grown significantly since the TRF's founding, in the number of organizations that provide opportunities for retired Thoroughbreds and in awareness among many in the industry that it is simply the right thing to do,

TRF's Kim Weir joins publisher Ray Paulick and news editor Chelsea Hackbarth in this week's edition of the Friday Show to talk about the TRF's Second Chances program that teams ex-racehorses with incarcerated men and women as part of a rehabilitation and vocational effort to get those individuals prepared for life outside of prison.

Weir is especially excited about an upcoming Horse Show on Oct. 21 that will be streamed live to showcase some of those inmates and the horses they care for. Go to www.trfinc.org for details.

Hackbarth had the opportunity recently to see real-world results of the program, writing about former Blackburn Correctional inmate Josh Ison, now working at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky. (Read the story here.)  “The TRF Second Chances program at Blackburn taught me patience with horses, and people,” Ison said.

Paulick and Hackbarth review Woodbine Star of the Week God of Love, Mark Casse's third consecutive Cup and Saucer Stakes winner. The 2-year-old colt is the 99th stakes winner for Eclipse Thoroughbreds, a partnership that had its first runner 10 years to the day before the Oct. 10 Cup and Saucer.

Watch this week's Friday Show, presented by Woodbine, below:

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