Texas Joins Retired Racehorse Group TAKE2

The Paddock Foundation will fund TAKE2 classes at five horse shows in Texas this year.
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The TAKE2 program is growing. Designed to promote second careers in the show ring for retired racehorses, TAKE2 offers hunter and jumper classes restricted to Thoroughbreds, with prize money funded by members of the Thoroughbred racing industry.

The initial launch featured three venues: the May 2-6 Garden State Horse Show in Augusta, N.J., sponsored by the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association; and the Saratoga Springs Horse Show (May 2-6 and May 9-13) and the Skidmore College Saratoga Classic Horse Show (June 12-17 and June 20-24) in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., sponsored by the New York Racing Association, New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (NYTHA), and New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc.

Now the initiative has reached the southwest, with the Texas horsemen’s group, The Paddock Foundation, a benevolence arm of the Texas Thoroughbred Association, stepping up to help fund TAKE2 classes for five horse shows in the Lone Star State this year. The Lone Star Round-Up kicked off the series last week, and the second, the Texas Shoot-Out, started April 25 and runs through April 29 in Tyler, Texas. All five shows will include a $750 Thoroughbred Hunter division, comprised of one under-saddle and two over-fences classes; and a $500 Thoroughbred Jumper division, with fences in two classes at .95 and 1.0 meters, respectively.

The circuit also boasts bonuses for the high-point Thoroughbred Jumpers. The high-point Texas-bred Thoroughbred ex-racehorse will get $1,500; the high-point unraced Texas-bred will get $1,000; and the high-point ex-racehorse bred outside of Texas will get $500

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