Canter Haven Farm OTTBs

09/04/2025

Members of the Wasatch Pony Club said they were blindsided when their cross-country course was bulldozed to make way for an OHV track.

08/29/2025

A Legacy Since 1987Golden Spike Cross Country Course began in 1987, when the county approached local equestrians with an idea: build a course on their land. From day one, its future has been uncertain—threatened, discussed, reimagined—but for the past 38 years, Wasatch Pony Club has been its ste...

08/19/2025

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07/24/2025

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07/16/2025

The OTTBs received a generous grant from After the Finish Line. Thank you!

04/29/2025

There are so many great equine organizations out there but we are fond of ours! Support ex-race horses!

Each year we give $500,000 in grants based on your votes

04/04/2025

Support local shows!! Get entered and have some fun!

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01/23/2025

Canter Haven Farm and the OTTBs are proud to be a CARMA Aftercare Charity. Thank you CARMA for supporting our Off the Track Thoroughbreds!

Check out our directory of CARMA Aftercare Charities! 🐴 These nonprofits, recipients of CARMA's Grants, undergo a thorough evaluation annually to ensure trusted care for retired racehorses.

Explore options for safe placement: https://www.carma4horses.org/aftercare_charities/

12/11/2024

This is a good read. Its long so here is a highlight but it should be read in its entirety! In regard to Racehorses retiring from racing, understand them for what they are - racehorses!:
" They live in a very structured lifestyle and are ridden to gallop! Even when I backed young Racehorses, although they also had some schooling education they were ultimately produced to go into racing rather than be a dressage horse or happy hacker and when they come out of Racing we have to re produce them all over again.
Why isn't this always easy? Because they have already had a job and a career and these intelligent, hard working animals will still be a Racehorse even after they leave Racing. Just because you have turned them away for 6 months and fattened them up or long lined them for miles and miles and done hours of ground work, when you get on they haven't miraculously forgotten what it was like to be a Racehorse and most never will.
Is that a problem? NO? It isn't if we understand them for what they are and realize that not only are you teaching your Racehorse how to be a ridden horse, you have to adjust your whole way of riding to help produce them in the best possible way".

10/25/2024

Support thoroughbred aftercare!

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10/04/2024

A blanket program for rescue horses and their adopters!

WeatherBeeta Blanket for Adopters