New Vocations Helped More Than 450 Ex-Racehorses in 2014

Of those horses, 80% were successfully retrained and adopted while the remaining 20% are being rehabilitated or trained.
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New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program has announced that in 2014 the group served more than 450 retired racehorses and screened 1,111 potential adopters through their application process. Of those horses, 80% were successfully retrained and adopted while the remaining 20% are still being rehabilitated or trained.

New Vocations focuses on rehabilitating, retraining, and rehoming Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds at the end of their racing careers. On average, the program has 95 horses in its care at any given time, divided among eight facilities in Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Over the past several years, New Vocations has increased its rehabilitation capacity to better serve the horses coming with injures. In 2014, half of the horses required 1 to 10 months of rehabilitation while the other half were able to go directly into vocational training.

“Most horses retire from racing due to an injury,” said program director Anna Ford. “However, we have seen that the majority of the injuries can be rehabilitated and the horse become sound for a second career. … There are plenty of individuals willing to take a retired racehorse, but it must be healthy and sound, which is why we are directing more resources to rehabilitation.”

During its 23 years of operation, New Vocations has developed a sound adoption system that has proven to move a large number of horses into qualified homes each year. With a constant stream retiring from the track, New Vocations continues to emphasize the importance of rehabilitating injuries and ultimately getting the retirees into homes rather than housing them permanently

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