New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program introduced Nov. 4 that the early estimate of funds raised throughout its fifteenth annual Breeders’ Cup Pledge shall be greater than $120,000. This 12 months’s whole was pushed by seven horses with pledging connections profitable their Future Stars Friday and Championship Saturday races: Moira , Sierra Leone , Thorpedo Anna , Henri Matisse , Citizen Bull , Lake Victoria and Chasing Liberty , together with Johannes , Mullikin , Fierceness , Candied , and Nitrogen inserting second and third of their races.
Further pledges are coming in and ultimate donations are nonetheless being tallied. Celebrating its fifteenth 12 months, the Pledge has raised greater than $1 million, with one hundred pc of funds going on to help this system’s rehabilitation, retraining, and rehoming efforts, which serve greater than 600 horses a 12 months.
“SF is proud to proceed our help of New Vocations, ” mentioned Gavin Murphy of SF Bloodstock. “We care enormously for the horses that race beneath our care. Their racing careers characterize solely a brief second in time for what we hope shall be lengthy and productive lives, and New Vocations does a beautiful job in getting ready them for his or her subsequent careers.”
This 12 months’s profitable connections embrace Coolmore and Companions, Judy Hicks, Robert Masterson, Tom and Katie Ryan, SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Stonestreet Stables, Twin Creeks Racing, Waves Edge Capital LLC, and White Birch Farm, Inc.
“We’re very grateful for the overwhelming help from the homeowners and trainers who joined the Pledge this 12 months,” mentioned Anna Ford, New Vocations Thoroughbred program irector. “With an incredible 77 horses with connections pledging this 12 months, the marketing campaign raises consciousness and much-needed funds to proceed our mission and develop our aftercare efforts.”
For extra data on the Pledge, please go to www.newvocations.org or e-mail Anna@horseadoption.com.