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  • Practical Horseman

    A MAKEOVER to REMEMBER

    Oct 01, 2019 3 minutes
    By Laurel Scott

    What’s in a name? Plenty, when you’re a gray off-the-track Thoroughbred called “Cannot Stop.”

    Once a lackluster racehorse who’d hit a dead end, Cannot Stop transitioned successfully to a hunter/jumper prospect with help from Second Chance Thoroughbreds, Inc. in Spencer, New York, and a team of dedicated horsewomen.

    Like many Thoroughbreds, the New York-bred son of Alphabet Soup was a rank-and-file claimer, running at the lowest levels of the sport for his entire 24-start career. He ended up in Puerto Rico, where, amazingly, he survived Hurricane Maria in 2017. Then, after running one last race,

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