The Muckratary, now Ellie, was adopted by Macy in Lewes, DE both to bring up in the Young Riders of eventing and also to take to the Retired Racehorse Project this year in Kentucky! We will be with them the whole way and wish them the best of luck.

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The Muckratary is recently arrived to ATR through Penn National’s New Start program. She is coming 5 years old this year and stands at least 16 hands with a nice hefty build to her. After racing five times, it became clear that racing was not her destined profession and her connections were kind enough to retire her. Originally intended to be bred, she returned to her trainer’s farm.

After deciding not to take her to the breeders shed this spring, she was placed into the New Start program and sent to ATR for retraining and rehoming. Upon her delivery we met a man who both foaled her out of her mother as a baby and worked with her at the track. He said she’s never been anything but a good horse and just didn’t really seem to have the heart for racing. He seemed sad to leave her behind but happy to know she’d be moving on to a new career.