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Every racing career ends, and responsible ownership means planning for it from the start. Retirement, second careers, the breeding path, and the aftercare programs doing the work — what happens to the horse when the racing is over.
A horse sale agreement protects a retired racehorse only as far as the person who signs it. The two clauses that carry the most weight are a no-slaughter provision and a resale-notification provision — the pair the Retired Racehorse Project…
Entering one horse in the 2026 Thoroughbred Makeover costs an owner about $805 in Retired Racehorse Project fees, and the horse is only eligible if it has had no more than 15 retraining rides before December 1, 2025. The Makeover…
When a racehorse syndicate advertises a commitment to accredited aftercare, that sentence is either a contract term or a marketing statement, and the two are not worth the same money to you. The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance is real and independently…
The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA) is a Lexington, Kentucky nonprofit that accredits, inspects, and funds the organizations that take racehorses after their last race — it does not take horses itself. The TAA has granted more than $40.74 million to…
Retirement horse boarding — carrying a retired racehorse on a farm instead of at the track — runs roughly $300 to $600 a month, working from the $10 to $20 per day the American Quarter Horse Association puts on basic…
Rehoming an ex-racehorse takes months of retraining before the horse is sellable at all, and that stays true when the vet report comes back clean. The industry sets the benchmark itself: the Retired Racehorse Project treats a horse as still…
The short version Laminitis is the inflammation and separation of the laminae that hold your horse’s coffin bone suspended inside the hoof. When that attachment fails, the bone can rotate or sink — and that is what turns a foot…
Racehorses get put down for one dominant reason: a catastrophic limb injury that cannot be repaired and cannot be survived humanely. In 2025, that happened at a rate of 1.07 per 1,000 starts in North American Thoroughbred racing — about…
An OTTB — off-track Thoroughbred — is a racehorse whose racing career has ended, usually between ages four and seven. Most first-time owners ask what a racehorse costs to buy. Far fewer ask what happens to it when the racing…
What Happens When A Race Horse Gets Injured? Watching your horse go down or pull up lame is one of the worst moments in racing. Whether you own a microshare or a full stable, the seconds that follow can feel…