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MONTBROOK – MAUVIN GWAY by RAJAB Chestnut Gelding – Foaled 1998 65 Starts: 22 – 9 – 8 $1,442,014 Lifetime Earnings Ocala Stud Farm Acquired by the TRF 03/23/2007 Shake loves to pose for pictures, as if he is auditioning for a major role in a Hollywood movie. One of his grooms, who has been caring for Shake for three years, ...

NOTEBOOK -  WHIRL’S GIRL by ISLAND WHIRL Chestnut Gelding – Foaled 2003 15 Starts: 2 – 1 – 2 $220,322 Lifetime Earnings Came to the TRF on 8/15/2008 Described as “leader of the paddock” and “lover boy”, Hemingway loves to play with his friends when turned out in the pasture. He also enjoys being groomed and brushed, and is quite ...

DOUBLE NINER – PUSHMATAHA by REGAL N ROYAL Chestnut Gelding – Foaled 2000 68 Starts: 16 – 8 – 17 $399,000 Lifetime Earnings Ran 3rd in the Alysheba Stakes Pushed is a sweet fellow who loves people and attention. If allowed, he will follow his caretakers to the paddock and back to his stall without a lead line. Before his ...

DR. CARTER – BOSUN’S BRIDE by NASHUA Multiple Graded Stakes winner Chestnut Gelding – Foaled 1989 102 Starts: 27 – 13 – 13 $753,533 Lifetime Earnings “Carter” is a special horse, honored upon retirement with the establishment of a namesake race, The $75,000 Carterista Handicap. His owner retired him to the TRF at the age of 10 after a very successful ...

LORD AT WAR (ARG) – WATCH THE TIME by TIMELESS MOMENT Chestnut gelding – Foaled 1994 19 Starts: 6 – 6 – 1 $348,813 Lifetime Earnings As a resident of the Blackburn Correctional Complex of the TRF, Stop Watch spends his days with his best friend, Dawn Steed, with whom he is inseparable. After 83 starts on the race ...

TOUR D’OR – WHITE WOOL SOCKS by WHITESBURG Chestnut Horse – Foaled 1994 20 Starts: 7 – 6 – 1 $724,605 Lifetime Earnings Phantom on Tour ran the race all Thoroughbred fans and owners dream of… the Kentucky Derby.  In 1997 he placed 6th, only a half dozen behind the winner, Silver Charm.   Phantom on Tour ended his ...

TWINING – DAWN’S FLAME by GREY DAWN II Chestnut Gelding – Foaled 1997 78 Starts: 13 – 10 – 11 $481,369 Lifetime Earnings Although ‘The Condor’ took over a year to settle down after a bout with stomach ulcers, he is now easy to get along with and has developed the nicest manners in the barn according to his ...

LORD AT WAR – ACQUISITIVE By SLEW O’ GOLD Bay Gelding – Foaled 1997 83 Starts: 23 – 14 – 17 $769,640 Lifetime Earnings On the track, Ask the Lord was not a mystery. He was pure speed.  Perhaps not the most handsome horse in the barn, Ask the Lord still has a most impressive conformation. With 83 starts ...

SARATOGA SIX – CONTRARY ROSE by SEAT of POWER Bay Gelding – Foaled 1992 78 Starts: 11 – 15 – 13 $149,261 Lifetime Earnings This horse will follow you all over the farm with no halter. He does everything in his own good time. He has a bad ankle with a chip that moves so sometimes he will have ...

POISON IVORY – A REAL NATIVE by MR. PROSPECTOR Bay Gelding – Foaled 1984 17 Starts: 19 – 15 – 10 $124,157 Lifetime earnings Native Ivory lost his entire tail when it was caught in a starting gate, but he has so much heart that he still finished the race in third place.   When he came to the TRF Farm ...

AFLEET – POIS CHICHE (FR) by EL TORO Chestnut Gelding – Foaled 1992 39 Starts: 13 – 5 – 3 $66,089 Lifetime Earnings Junkanoo has been with us for years, and to this day, it is hard for him to relax and trust new people. He always comes around and realizes that everyone at Blackburn is going to treat ...

QUACKED – SADIE MAE by SADAIR Bay Gelding – Foaled 1984 86 Starts: 16 – 15 – 12 $807,817 Lifetime Earnings Quick Call is one of the oldest horses at TRF’s Wallkill Correctional Facility  farm in NY, but in his earlier days, he was a superstar who raced for 7 years and dominated the New York tracks.  In fact, ...

HALISSEE – NINEVEH by ANNIHILATE’EM Grey/Roan Horse – Foaled 1998 13 Starts: 1 – 1 – 0 $8,550 Lifetime Earnings Thesonofthesun raced only 13 times at Philadelphia Park before he was seriously injured. When Sonny arrived at the TRF, we weren’t sure that he would make it. But Sonny had other ideas, and slowly but surely recovered enough to ...

WHITESBURG – COLD CAROL by RUN A NATIVE Chestnut Gelding – Foaled 1989 108 Starts: 23 – 19 – 22 $557,543 Lifetime Earnings The story of Rocking Josh represents the mission of TRF. Few of us will forget “Josh’s” arrival at TRF. Abandoned after earning over a half million dollars, he was so badly starved that he was not expected to ...

Mt. LIVERMORE – LADY OF CHOICE by STORM BIRD Dark Bay Gelding – Foaled 1998 74 Starts: 9 – 16 – 13 $692,450 Lifetime Earnings Multiple Choice had an amazing career of racing, earning more than half a million dollars, as a multiple graded stakes winner, and great-grandson of  Secretariat. During his racing career, he beat some of the ...

GLITTERMAN – TWILIGHT SPECTRE by IMP SOCIETY Bay Gelding – foaled 1999 8 Starts: 4 – 1 – 1 $227,335 Lifetime Earnings Former Owner – West Point Thoroughbreds Not a large horse, Ethan Man has been blessed with excellent conformation and the cutest head and face, coupled with a long, beautiful mane. He enjoys his days playing with over 20 ...

COZZENE – GOLDEN WAVE BAND by DIXIELAND BAND Grey/Roan Gelding – Foaled 1996 18 Starts: 5 – 2 – 2 $1,349,066 Lifetime Earnings Having earned over $1 million, Rhythm Band was retired after fracturing his left sesamoid bone.  However, he still loves to run and run each day in the field where he is turned out with other TRF horses. A ...

FIT TO FIGHT – ROYAL TRIPS by SUMMER SQUALL Dark Bay Gelding – Foaled 2000 30 Starts: 8 – 12 – 3 $605,655 Lifetime Earnings He’s not the sweetest horse on the planet, but barring that, this tall, dark and handsome fellow makes a lovely pasture ornament. We call him “Carl”. Carl made over $605,000 on the track, and ...

OUT OF PLACE – TANKS ROOMATE by TANK’S PROSPECT Chestnut Mare – Foaled 1998 3 Starts: 1 – 0 – 0 $4,445 Lifetime Earnings We call her “Miss Fine”. This lovely mare had been adopted and was doing fine (no pun intended) until an unfortunate accident caused an infection in her pastern joint.  She was sent back to TRF ...

LEAVE SEATTLE – FANNY DERBY by MASTER DERBY Chestnut Mare – Foaled 1996 52 Starts: 3 – 9 – 12 $29,906 Lifetime Earnings “Girlie” is our hard luck pony. She came to TRF Montpelier sick, with one of the worst case of rain rot we have ever seen. She had also been severely abused. Many months later, she was rideable and ...

RELIC RELIC RELIC – ELYSIAN PEACE by CARNIVALAY Bay Mare – Foaled 1999 13 Starts: 0 – 0 – 2 $2,401 Lifetime Earnings “Gracie”, our nick name for Relic Peace, is a very sweet mare. She is small for a Thoroughbred, at barely 15 hands. She came to us with a severed tendon in the left hind pastern. It was ...

RIZZI – KIND OF APPEALING by VALID APPEAL Dark Bay Mare – Foaled 1998 22 Starts: 2 – 8 – 1 $348,81316,338 Lifetime Earnings “Richie” came to the TRF Montpelier in 2003 with double bows. She is a 1998 mare by Rizzi out of Kind of Appealing. All I know about the mare is that she won 2 low level claiming ...

NORTHERN TREND – CORONELA by WHO’S FOR DINNER Chestnut Gelding – Foaled 1997 93 Starts: 17 – 16 – 2 $165,833 Lifetime Earnings “Baby” arrived at the TRF Montpelier in March of 2006 after suffering some serious injuries, reportedly from a starting gate accident, after 84 starts. It’s doubtful he was the instigator of his injuries which included a ...

HAWAII – VALIENTE by COUGAR II Bay Mare – Foaled 1987 “Elvis” was in training as a three year old but caught EPM and was sent to me. He is too neurologic to ride, but quite a ham, and loves treats. He’s probably making that cute face because someone is standing behind their camera with a carrot. He’s nothing but ...

“Lifer” is the sweetest, kindest horse you could ever ask for. I really want him to find a home in a therapeutic riding program somewhere. He’s got chips in his knee, so can’t do much, but loves the attention.

“Bailey” arrived big and beautiful with lovely clean legs, but a large back injury. He cannot bend to the right or pick up the right lead. When pushed he explodes (and a 17h 1300 pound horse can really go BOOM!), so he lives out with his buddies now. But he is one of the world’s most lovely ...

DEPOSIT TICKET – SOON TO SIN by AMBER PASS Dark Bay Mare – Foaled 1999 23 Starts: 0 – 3 – 2 $18,946 Lifetime Earnings “Penny” arrived sick and thin in December of 2003. Her left ankle is very enlarged and fused and arthritic. She was lame on a left hind leg injury when we got her. None of that stopped her ...

MIGRATING MOON – TRINITY PEACE by LORDEDAW (IRE) Dark Bay Mare – Foaled 2000 17 Starts: 2 – 1 – 3 $46,851 Lifetime Earnings Trinity Moon arrived from New Holland with a saddle mark still on her back, poultice still on her legs, and shoes that needed replacing weeks before. She has bad knees, and can’t be ridden, she’s sweet ...