A New Face

 


We welcomed a new face today! We are happy to welcome Warning Track into Center for Racehorse Retraining, our nonprofit. She has a bit of a story to get to where she is today. She is a 2006 Thoroughbred mare. She is a daughter of Grand Slam, a multiple graded stakes horse, 2nd Breeder's Cup Sprint, sire of over 800 winners and sire of over $64 million. Her dam is Madame Modjeska by the great Danzig. Warning Track ran poorly, but she is a blacktype producer and dam of eight foals. She was sold through a dispersal sell after her breeder passed away. From there, she somehow ended up at a kill pen in Colorado.

R.A.C.E Fund found out about her and raised enough money to both purchase her and put her into quarantine at Dreamcatcher Equine Rescue in Colorado. We're thankful for the work that R.A.C.E Fund and Dreamcatcher Equine Rescue did to pull Warning Track out of the pen and to take such good care of her over the last month. We were asked by R.A.C.E Fund to provide a retirement home for her, to which we said yes.

Other than one positive nasal swab, everything went smoothly. Her second was negative, so we expect that it was a false positive. Either way, she'll remain separated for a little while at our place until we can do an SAA test and check for any signs of illness.

Lanya Clinard with Safe Landing Horse Rescue transported her to us this morning. Warning Track unloaded well and seems like a very sweet mare. The plan with her is to check her for pregnancy tomorrow and let her settle in a stall for the next week. Assuming her SAA and temperature are fine, she will begin turnout sometime next week. While we hope that she is not pregnant, if she is, we will take care of her like we do all of our broodmares, and she'll get the best care that we can offer, as will her foal. We are keeping our fingers crossed tonight that she is open, officially retired and will begin her life of ease.

While we do not get many horses from the pens, we have had a few this year. Our goal is to help all Thoroughbreds, but we have a real soft spot for the broodmares.

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