OTTB wins US award for therapy work
The Jockey Club’s Thoroughbred Incentive Program has named its Young Rider of the Year as well as Thoroughbred of the Year laurels winners.
The Thoroughbred Incentive Program (TIP), which was created inward Oct 2011, sponsors Thoroughbred-only classes as well as divisions as well as high indicate Thoroughbred awards at opened upward Equus caballus shows as well as competitions.
The Thoroughbred of the Year Award recognizes a Thoroughbred that has excelled inward a non-competitive career, such equally equine-assisted therapy or police describe work.
This year’s recipient is Maud Star, aka Aspen, a 1989 gelding who raced 32 times as well as won $9,587 inward his 4 years of racing.
Aspen is a therapeutic riding Equus caballus at the Rainier Therapeutic Riding middle inward Yelm, Washington, which provides therapeutic horsemanship lessons to wounded, active-duty as well as veteran members of the military. Aspen is the oldest Equus caballus inward the programme as well as has helped to a greater extent than than 26 riders overcome the wounds of war, including Post Traumatic Stress, encephalon injuries, anxiety disorders as well as other physical injuries.
According to Elisia Mutter, the executive manager of the Rainier Therapeutic Riding Center: “Aspen is a programme favorite who stands quietly for riders equally they overcome their fears as well as anxieties of working with a large Equus caballus for the start time. His serenity insistence that his handlers inquire him for things correctly helps these amazing people ane time once again necessitate keep the confidence to hold upward a leader.”
The immature passenger award, which recognizes a passenger xviii or nether who owns or leases a Thoroughbred for operate inward 4-H, Pony Club or other activities, was dissever alongside 3 riders, Sydney Luzicka, Kendyl Shantz, as well as Elizabeth Spann.
Luzicka, who is 12 as well as has been riding since she was 3, plans to operate the laurels funds to attend clinics as well as Equus caballus shows. “It is my dream to hold upward able to ride with the best clinicians inward the USA as well as soak upward all their knowledge,” she wrote inward her essay. “It is likewise my dream to compete against the best riders.”
Luzicka, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, rides an off-track Thoroughbred named Olive Way, aka Catnip or All That Glitters, a 1996 mare she purchased from the Minnesota Retired Racehorse Project.
Shantz, a 17-year-old from Bridgewater, New Jersey, rides Canyon of Heroes, aka Hero, a 2005 gelding who raced 23 times as well as retired at historic menstruation 5.
“I’ve never trained a Equus caballus from scratch, as well as Hero’s never been a sport Equus caballus but he proves to me inward the vociferation upward as well as on the trails he’s intelligent, courageous, diligent, willing as well as trusting.” Shantz wrote inward her essay.
“Though everyone idea I was crazy to purchase him … immediately non exclusively produce nosotros test them wrong, nosotros surprise ourselves with what we’re accomplishing. I couldn’t necessitate keep bought a meliorate horse.”
Shantz plans to operate her TIP laurels funds to assist with college, clinics as well as shows.
Spann, an 11-year-old from Lake Mills, Wisconsin, who rides 12-year-old off-track-Thoroughbred Who’s the Fox, aka Fable, said: “This laurels says that I am a caring as well as compassionate private who takes proficient aid of my Equus caballus as well as I aid almost my barn. It volition likewise exhibit that I volition produce equally much equally possible to promote instant careers for OTTB as well as assist other people choke involved with riding.”
Spann wants to operate her TIP laurels to assist other riders bring together Pony Club as well as necessitate keep lessons, as well as to attend the Pony Club regional campsite as well as annual meeting.
The Jockey Club committed $100,000 to TIP for the airplane pilot programme inward 2012, for which 167 Equus caballus shows from 26 states as well as ii Canadian provinces were approved.
More information: tjctip.com or facebook.com/tjctip.
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