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🐰 It's feel-Good Friday for these LOOK DE VEGA foals!

A blueprint with teeth @mindmodeller is part of the Racing Innovation Group The team has produced the report “Racing Needs Transformational Change not Incremental Tinkering”, a whole industry strategy that outlines a pathway for British racing ... but the sport needs to act now 7su0.short.gy/feb26_racingin…

🆘The Thoroughbred Renaissance has begun. $35,000 raised in under 24 hours for 20 TAKE2 Thoroughbred Hunter & Jumper Classics at the Kentucky Horse Park—with more coming at Warrenton, Upperville, and beyond—is just the first shot fired. This needle-moving money will drive demand for Thoroughbreds back into the ring as sporthorses—hunters, jumpers, eventers, barrel horses, and more—by uniting the racehorse and sporthorse worlds around real prize money, real opportunity, and lifelong aftercare. But a true Renaissance needs a chorus: your voices, your networks, your social channels. Share every release far and wide, tell riders to get an OTTB now and help make “I ride a Thoroughbred” the most powerful sentence in the show barn again. There is zero excuse for a U.S. show ring full of foreign-bred horses while our Thoroughbreds stand on the sidelines. The Thoroughbred Renaissance isn’t about feeling good; it’s about doing right by the horses that power our game—by incentivizing aftercare, putting up serious prize money, and building high-dollar Thoroughbred-only classes that grow their value in the sporthorse market and end the idea that you have to leave America to buy “quality.” @MachmerHall mailchi.mp/nytha/classics

🥲sad news, a formidable horseman. 💜 @Hannah_BL @edward_whitaker

🇳🇿 New Zealand rider Clarke Johnstone became the inaugural winner of the Arena Racing Company (ARC) Racehorse to Eventer Challenge at Cornbury House Horse Trials, which carries a £45,000 first prize – unprecedented in the sport of eventing at this level. loom.ly/ffPmNJk

It was a tricky, and big, track #Cornbury Horse Trials for the Racehorse To Eventer Challenge, but the T'breds proved once again how clever they are and more than up to the challenge to battle for the £45,000 first prize Will be featuring the class & the initiative in the November edition of International Thoroughbred magazine #Cornbury | #CHHT | @DashStud | @arenaracingco |

Treo Eile, 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 for any of Ireland's magnificent racehorses... 🔁🍀✨ @TreoEileRIR | @HRIRacing | #ICF

BANGKOK’S FIRST WINNER 🏆 RISING EMPIRE was BANGKOK’s first foal, first runner, and now his first winner. There looks to be plenty to come from this talented 2yo colt. Congratulations to Simon and Rhian on this landmark victory, breeders of RISING EMPIRE and owners of BANGKOK.

“He’s just such a beautiful looking horse and he deserves more mares than he's getting, but the ones he's got are looking more Flat than jumpers.” Chapel Stud sire Bangkok off the mark at Windsor 👉 bit.ly/3H0l87w

What a BANGER! Bravo 👏 🌟

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Thank you 2024 ✨ #MusicOfTheSpheresWorldTour #MoonMusic

Some jumping career ahead of him!

Super victory!!! 🏆👏 Davy rode OUR FATHER Austin OSCAR ENCORE Rachael MICHAEL’S PICK Fair play to their retrainers - class jumping - congrats 🥳

Or could it be another night of stars for @ninacarberry who jets in from Brussels to Captain Team @Fairyhouse ? Joined by @StephMcGlynn fresh from 🏆 @DublinHorseShow & @RollineOC with Georgia Queally on her pony! 🏇 🌟

Gunning for gold 🏆👊

Could this dude be star of the @TreoEileRIR Christmas Show! 🎄 He’ll be jumping alongside Arvika Ligeonnaire & Briar Hill on team @RandoxHealth with Captain @PTownend, @bhorsetrials victor Caroline Powell & Louise Duffy! @WillieMullinsNH

A different🌟 4 @HoStud Kodiac: LOADED debuts at @TreoEileRIR Christmas Show Fun to watch @oismurphy in his showjumping gear! Paired with @DublinHorseShow speedster Hannah Horan in the relay! @cottagestud Sean Monaghan EmmaMc on MrCosmopolitan Hold tight💨 @HorseAndCountry

2nd in @CheltenhamRaces bumper, won informative Beginners Chase @Fairyhouse Winter festival, won @Goffs1866 Thyestes Chase, ran in @AintreeRaces Grand National & Grand Chase Des Paris. Today @JosephLalor1 Carefully Selected out with Juilette Fingleton & Laois Pony Club

Launching our Christmas Show at @NavanRacecourse Tickets are on sale —> itsplainsailing.com/org/te @REDMILLSHorse @weatherbysltd @equuipHRI @HRIRacing