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  • Practical Horseman

    From Facebook to New Family

    Mar 12, 2019 3 minutes
    By Lauren Feldman

    The Facebook ad was short on details: “4yo TB gelding. Must go today. $600.”

    However, it was all the detail that Collette Duddy needed to take action. Duddy is the founder and executive director of Second Chance Thoroughbreds, Inc.—a rescue organization for retired racehorses. Her mission is to rehabilitate, retrain and rehome off-the-track Thoroughbreds (OTTBs) in need. And here was a horse in need. “We were close by,” she explains, “We had to take him.”

    When he first arrived at Second Chance in April of 2017, Hiclass Tenpin (“Turtle”) bore the marks

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