New Vocations to Build New Racehorse Retraining Facility

The new facility will include two 15-stall barns, indoor and outdoor arenas, and multiple pastures and paddocks.
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In order to enhance its mission of helping as many retiring racehorses as possible, New Vocations Racehorse Adoption program is launching a $2 million capital campaign to build a premier Thoroughbred retraining facility on the historic Mereworth Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.

The program currently takes in more than 450 horses a year. Once complete, the new facility, which will include two 15-stall barns, an indoor arena, an outdoor arena, an office, and multiple pastures and paddocks, will double the program’s Lexington capacity.

The collaboration between New Vocations and the Susan S. Donaldson Foundation’s Mereworth Farm was announced in April. The initial phase of the relationship includes use of a 20-stall barn along with multiple paddocks to house horses in need of rehabilitation prior to entering New Vocations’ retraining program.

In addition to the rehabilitation barn, the foundation is also providing the program a free, long-term lease of 85 acres, on which New Vocations will build a retraining facility. The foundation is also stepping up to help with ongoing program expenses at the new facility by providing all the grain for the New Vocations’ horses, covering water costs and mowing all green spaces. When combined with the remainder of Mereworth Farm, it will be the largest rehabilitation, retraining, rehoming and retirement facility in the country

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