New VocationsRacehorse Adoption Program

12-20-09

• Name: Forever Mania
• Age: 11 yrs
• Height: 15.3h
• Color: Dark Bay Gelding
• Adoption Fee: $0
• Location: Laura, OH

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How many people does it take to save a retired racehorse and put it in a home?  In Forever Mania’s case it will take seven entities working together to give him a future.  Lost and Found in Pennsylvania saw the dark bay gelding in the kill pen at New Holland, PA.  He was quite thin and had a blemish in his right eye, but his vision is good.  An anomamous person put up the money to purchase him.  He was quarantined for 30 days before another group paid to have him shipped to the Kentucky Equine Humane Center.  There he was wormed, trimmed, and vaccinated.  The vet evaluated him and said he had good potential as a riding horse.  They continued his good feed and care for another 30 days.  In order to ease the numbers at the KyEHC, Walnut Hall Ltd arranged to have the gelding shipped to New Vocations in Ohio.  We identified him as Forever Mania.  He raced on the pace at three, four, and five.  Then he shows up at New Holland ten years later.  We don’t know what he’s been doing the last five years.  I tacked him up and took him down the road.  He didn’t act like he’d been ridden, but was agreeable and caught on quickly like most of them do.  He even racked smoothly when I collected him in the bridle.   He didn’t hug the right side of the road or stand like a statue when I said “whoa” so it doesn’t appear that he’s been pulling an Amish buggy.  I’m guessing he’s been a pasture ornament that got too expensive to keep.  Forever is easy to catch, groom, and tack.  He walks quietly beside you and doesn’t seem spooky at all.   He has large, kind, intelligent eyes that speak to your soul.  He is grateful to be one of the lucky ones, that he’s here, loved, and well fed.     Now, we’re looking for the seventh entitiy in this saga, the one that will give this gentle gelding a home and a future.