Descendant of Sea Biscuit Saved
ARCADIA, Calif. — By the time a Thoroughbred enters the ring at the livestock market in Chino, located only about 25 miles east of Santa Anita Park, that horse has become anonymous. It doesn’t matter...
View ArticleAreyoutalkingtome retired to Tranquility Farm
Areyoutalkintome, winner of the 2004 Cal Cup Sprint; the Pirate’s Bounty Handicap in both 2005 and 2006; the Gr. 3 El Conejo Handicap; and the Los Angeles Handicap, has been retired to Tranquility...
View ArticleRescue Effort Seeks Help for 46 Horses
A Thoroughbred retirement facility in Southern California is seeking public support in its attempt to save 46 horses culled from a large-scale breeding farm in the region that are awaiting possible...
View ArticleEndangered Mares Removed From Feed Lot
Following more than a week of difficult negotiations, 36 pregnant Thoroughbred mares and one stallion were removed from a Phoenix, Ariz., feedlot Aug. 15 and are now at two safe locations in the state,...
View ArticleTranquility Farm Profiled in CTBA Magazine
Upon my first visit to Tranquility Farm, The Harry A. Bizzantz Memorial Center for Equine Retirement, I was excited about what I was going to see. In speaking with Priscilla Clark, I was moved by her...
View ArticleOld Warriors Two of The Lucky Ones
By Jay Hovdey – Daily Racing Form For all their travels, there was a reasonable chance that 9-year-old Buddy Gil and 6-year-old Fete, a pair of well-seasoned geldings, might have crossed paths at some...
View ArticleThanksgiving Week Charity Focus: Tranquility Farm
Earlier this year when 46 Thoroughbreds from a California breeder’s farm wound up by deception at a feedlot in Arizona, their eventual destination likely to be a Mexican slaughterhouse, Priscilla Clark...
View ArticleText of Tranquility Farm piece read by Jerry Moss
Those of you who watched last night’s Eclipse Awards heard Jerry Moss read an excerpt from a piece written by Priscilla Clark, president of the Thoroughbred retirement facility Tranquility Farm in...
View ArticleThree Chimneys presents Good News Friday: Tranquility Farm
Maybe it’s the name. Tranquility Farm offers visions of a blissful world where Thoroughbreds no longer able to compete on the racetrack live out their lives like happy seniors at a retirement...
View ArticleGetting a Handle on After Care
With great interest I read a recent letter to the editor stating one horseman’s opinion of how to handle unwanted horses (The Blood-Horse of Dec. 25/Jan. 1, page 3832). His reasoning was logical and...
View ArticleHow One Horse and One Owner Changed Thoroughbred Aftercare in California
It seems only appropriate a racehorse named Lennyfromalibu would become the inspiration behind the development of CARMA, a nonprofit dedicated to Thoroughbred aftercare in the Golden State. On the...
View ArticleAreyoutalkingtome retired to Tranquility Farm
Areyoutalkintome, winner of the 2004 Cal Cup Sprint; the Pirate’s Bounty Handicap in both 2005 and 2006; the Gr. 3 El Conejo Handicap; and the Los Angeles Handicap, has been retired to Tranquility...
View ArticleRescue Effort Seeks Help for 46 Horses
A Thoroughbred retirement facility in Southern California is seeking public support in its attempt to save 46 horses culled from a large-scale breeding farm in the region that are awaiting possible...
View ArticleEndangered Mares Removed From Feed Lot
Following more than a week of difficult negotiations, 36 pregnant Thoroughbred mares and one stallion were removed from a Phoenix, Ariz., feedlot Aug. 15 and are now at two safe locations in the state,...
View ArticleTranquility Farm Profiled in CTBA Magazine
Upon my first visit to Tranquility Farm, The Harry A. Bizzantz Memorial Center for Equine Retirement, I was excited about what I was going to see. In speaking with Priscilla Clark, I was moved by her...
View ArticleOld Warriors Two of The Lucky Ones
By Jay Hovdey – Daily Racing Form For all their travels, there was a reasonable chance that 9-year-old Buddy Gil and 6-year-old Fete, a pair of well-seasoned geldings, might have crossed paths at some...
View ArticleThanksgiving Week Charity Focus: Tranquility Farm
Earlier this year when 46 Thoroughbreds from a California breeder’s farm wound up by deception at a feedlot in Arizona, their eventual destination likely to be a Mexican slaughterhouse, Priscilla Clark...
View ArticleText of Tranquility Farm piece read by Jerry Moss
Those of you who watched last night’s Eclipse Awards heard Jerry Moss read an excerpt from a piece written by Priscilla Clark, president of the Thoroughbred retirement facility Tranquility Farm in...
View ArticleThree Chimneys presents Good News Friday: Tranquility Farm
Maybe it’s the name. Tranquility Farm offers visions of a blissful world where Thoroughbreds no longer able to compete on the racetrack live out their lives like happy seniors at a retirement...
View ArticleGetting a Handle on After Care
With great interest I read a recent letter to the editor stating one horseman’s opinion of how to handle unwanted horses (The Blood-Horse of Dec. 25/Jan. 1, page 3832). His reasoning was logical and...
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