Horses and Equestrian

The racehorse sanctuary and re-homing centre was started and is run by Sue Collins and Graham Oldfield, both having been involved with horses throughout their entire careers. Graham had started another racehorse sanctuary and re-homing centre many years before, however after re-homing over 100 horses, he left and the racehorse sanctuary was started.

If you are concerned for the welfare of retired horses have a look at their site and give them some support.

I just spoke to a friend who pointed me towards a great site which sells horse-racing pictures. It looks like the people who own the site are horseracing fanatics and are at the races pretty much every weekend, I only had a quick look myself, but from the quality of the images and the exact places they have been taken from, I suspect that they are professionals.

The great thing is that if you are an owner like me, Ahem, well I own a very small share in a horse, probably no more than a hoof to be honest, but you can go on there and see if they have any pictures of your own horse crossing the finish line (preferably first)

The site is called Horse Racing In Focus so have a look and see if you can spot your horse on there, or any of your friends horses either, all the pictures can be bought.

Another nice twist to the usually completely commercial online shops of today, is the fact that they support the injured jockeys fund, so on their signed series (which are some of the better pictures, but signed by the jockeys) a percentage of what they take is donated to the fund.