RRP Seeks 500 Trainers for 2016 Thoroughbred Makeover

The event will take place Oct. 27-30 and will feature competitions in 10 disciplines with prize money totaling $100,000.
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The Retired Racehorse Project (RRP), a nonprofit organization that promotes off-track Thoroughbreds for multiple equestrian sports, has opened an online application for participation in the 2016 Thoroughbred Makeover.

The 2016 Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium will take place Oct. 27-30 at the Kentucky Horse Park, in Lexington. It will feature competition in 10 disciplines—freestyle, eventing, barrel racing, dressage, polo, show jumping, working ranch, show hunter, field hunter, and competitive trail—with prize money totaling $100,000, including a $10,000 America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred prize and a $5,000 Thoroughbred Ambassador Award. The event also includes educational demonstrations, seminars, a Makeover Horse Sale, and a sponsor fair.

The Makeover process begins Jan. 4 with a four-week application period in which professionals, amateurs, and juniors who can demonstrate competence in at least one of the 10 disciplines submit an application to include competition highlights, references, and videos of their riding skills. Applications close Jan. 31 and selections will be announced in mid-February.

Each trainer must select a Thoroughbred that raced or had a published work after Oct. 1, 2014, and that did not begin training for a second career before the start of 2016. Some trainers will already have horses identified and others will begin a search after they are approved. Trainers can contract with owners or acquire the horse themselves. The RRP does not take ownership of horses

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