A lesser achiever on the track has found his niche as an eventer.
Profiles
What started out as an afterschool job working for his decorated horseman father has morphed into a coveted training career for Jamie Attard.
Thoroughbreds can have just about any kind of post-racing career in other sport disciplines such as jumping or barrel racing. It takes a unique racehorse to make the transition to polo pony, however. Double Mi Trouble was just such a horse.
When it comes to the Alberta thoroughbred racing scene, Amanda Gregory is certainly no one-trick pony.
When Livada finished last of 11 runners in a race at Fort Erie in July of 2012, it was evident the daughter of El Prado was never going to race again. The four-year-old emerged from the race with two fractured knees and an uncertain future.
There are around 60 equines on the farm, Openwood Stable, that Susan Rasmussen has owned with her husband Harvey since 1978.
'Bird' is the word on the Hollywood silver screen for a loveable longshot.
Cam Ziprick owned his first thoroughbred when he was just 13.
Two of Canada's most successful and popular racehorses in recent years have left the rigours of the racing world for new occupations.
About five years ago, Winnipeg's Barry Arnason decided to take a run at spending more money and improving his Thoroughbred business.
Zanetti has been on this earth longer than his young owner and rider, Hunter Trombley. In fact when Trombley, now 15, was a toddler, Zanetti was racing in some major three-year-old stakes races in Kentucky, Illinois, Florida and Ontario.
Once Dorothy and Sean started going to the races to watch their friends' horse run, they soon found a love for the sport.
Bar 17 Stable offers a wide range of services to the Alberta thoroughbred industry including boarding, training, foaling out, rehabilitation, and more.
Lou Tucci and his uncle Carlo fulfilled a lifetime dream when their colt Midnight Aria upset the 154th Queen's Plate.
There have not been too many thoroughbreds who have been able to win twice at the Breeders' Cup on two very different surfaces and with virtually no racing action in the year between.
