TAKE2 offers racehorses a second chance
Excerpted from an article by Bob Ehalt on ESPN.com
Much of the focus lately at New York racetracks has involved the health and well-being of the horses that sustain the sport.
Yet for all of the attention centered on what’s been happening five racing days a week at Aqueduct, there’s also concern about the future of the industry’s equine athletes, something that can arrive rather quickly for a horse that might peak at the rather youthful age of three or four.
Options for a retired racehorse are limited, but the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, the New York Racing Association and the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc., are hoping that the up and down world of show jumping can expand them.
Together they formed and funded TAKE2, a jobs program of sorts for Thoroughbreds, which intends to open doors so that racehorses can become show jumpers once their days of springing from a starting gate come to an end.
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