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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: An ‘All-Around Horse’ With A Side Hustle
Recently studies have shown that today's professionals – especially those in their 20s, 30s and 40s – often have more than one source of income. Commonly referred to as having a “side hustle,” these...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Going The Distance
Thoroughbreds are typically bred for speed, and often the question asked is “can they go the distance?” Can a horse stretch out from carrying their speed a few furlongs in morning workouts to a mile, 1...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: For The Love Of Smarty Jones And...
It was 2011 when Susan Harmon joined the Facebook community. What drove her to do so wasn't to reconnect with childhood friends or keep a public journal of her day-to-day happenings, but rather to...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: You’re Using That Thoroughbred For What?!
Thoroughbreds can excel at anything, I truly believe that. So often after racing they're asked to perform over jumps on the cross-country course, in the dressage ring or on the polo field. They enjoy...
View ArticleCosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Tips And Tricks For Making Horses Look...
If you think about it, there are a lot of people in the pre-track and off-track worlds who are operating on parallel paths this time of year. With September barreling toward us, sales consignors and...
View ArticleCosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Mr. Wilson A Teacher For The Ages
Everyone needs a good teacher. Even those brave souls who ride racehorses on a daily basis needed to start somewhere and hone their craft. The same goes for horses, who before they achieved greatness...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: The Perseverance Of A ‘Gentleman Pirate’
Every horse person has their “heart horse.” It's that horse for which there is no equal, at least in your eyes. To you, that horse is your absolute one, your favorite beyond all others. It's a horse...
View ArticleCosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: ‘The Toughest Off-Track Horse’ Finds...
Just like humans, every horse is different. They react differently to situations, they learn things in different ways and they express themselves in a nuanced and unique fashion. As we've covered in...
View ArticleCosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Wet Weather Woes
How's the weather where you are? If you answered “wet,” you're in the same boat as much of the rest of the country…and that boat may come in handy with all of this rain! Rain can wreak havoc in a...
View ArticleCosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Thoroughbred Makeover Bridges Gap...
It was hard to be at the Kentucky Horse Park this past week and not be inspired by all that surrounded you. There, hundreds of Thoroughbreds, all with eight months or less of retraining since their...
View ArticleCosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: A ‘Passport’ To A Second Career
There's no doubt about it, Brookline was bred for greatness. Out of the iconic broodmare Cara Rafaela, a Grade 1 winner herself who produced the likes of superstar sire Bernardini, Brookline had some...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Prospecting For Polo Potential
Growing up on his family's Morgan horse farm, it was of little surprise that Nick Rennekamp would center his life's work around horses. What was less obvious at the time was that his specialty would...
View ArticleCosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Ponying Off The Track
Tom and Clare Mansmann have a knack for off-track Thoroughbreds, there's no question about that. At their Pacific Farms, Inc., an equestrian facility in Middleburg, Va., specializing in lessons,...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Desensitizing Horses For Racing And Life
Everyone wants a horse that can handle its surroundings. Whether it's the hustle and bustle of the sales grounds, the energy-charged environment on race day, the controlled chaos of a horse show or...
View ArticleCosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: The Gentle Approach Of Square Peg
“Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.” – Paul Collins, author...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: So Long But Not Goodbye
“The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Mahatma Gandhi It was about seven years ago that I wrote the first installment of what would become known as the “Aftercare Spotlight” series for...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Ozzie Is Stepping Out And Stepping Up...
Today, we're bringing you the new incarnation of the Aftercare Spotlight. Each month, we'll publish a column from a different person training an off-track Thoroughbred telling us what they're working...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: The Smiling Thoroughbred, And How...
I am the founder of the Square Peg Foundation, where we employ rescue horses (many of them OTTBs) in a therapeutic riding program for kids. People sometimes ask what it takes to get a new horse ready...
View ArticleCosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Rosie’s ‘Unicorn’ And The Power Of...
When I was six years old, I knew that my calling in life was to be a jockey. And so I set a goal: to be the youngest jockey and first female ever to win the Triple Crown. Simple as that! Unfortunately,...
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Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: ‘So Much More Than A Horse Show’
At first glance, they seemed out of place, like when basketball great Michael Jordan played minor league baseball for a season or when MMA champion Conor McGregor stepped in a boxing ring against that...
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