Retire & Rehome
Whichever way we ride or however we are associated with horses, we can all agree that horse welfare and rescue is extremely important. Learn about these caring places in our Rehome section, where money and time can be donated to help horses find, or remain, in their forever home.
Many charity events help fund the good work of equine rescue organizations. Parties and auctions to benefit rescue are included in the Calendar of Events for Retire & Rehome.
Have an old friend to retire? Find a place where your horse can live the life of leisure in our Retirement section.
Do we need to add an event or rescue? Please use the useful feedback link and let us know!
Award-winning photographer Carol Walker beautifully portrayed a band of wild Appaloosas in her wonderful book Galloping to Freedom: Saving the Adobe Town Appaloosas. The Bureau of Land Management maintains and manages wild horses and burros in "heard management areas" or HMAs. Adobe Town, located in south central Wyoming near the Colorado border, is one of those HMAs.
Carol Walker brings to life a band of horses, led by an Appaloosa stallion dubbed "Bronze Warrior" who is the patriarch of a colorful array of mares and foals. These Adobe Town horses were rounded up and separated - some family members sent to Colorado and others to Nevada. Their courage, playfulness, curiosity…and even fear is remarkably captured by Ms. Walker. Reading this book, we feel immersed in the heritage of the wild mustangs, and empathize with the complexity of providing them a dignified future.
Read more: Galloping to Freedom: Saving the Adobe Town Appaloosas
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The Moneigh fundraiser program began over 10 years ago by ReRun Thoroughbred Adoption. After the Finish Line has partnered with ReRun to raise funds for both charities. The Moneighs have become known as the official horse paintings of the Thoroughbred racing industry, in part because the name “Moneigh®” is trademarked. Paintings have been created by more than 200 Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, and Breeders’ Cup racers and winners, Stakes raced horses, and the most popular stallions and broodmares in the country.
Victoria Racimo was a very busy actress but is now a writer, producer and director. Her latest project is the film "One Day", the story of the late famed thoroughbred, Our Mims, the 1977 Eclipse Award Champion 3-year-old Filly. "One Day" will premiere on Friday, October 9th at Equus Run Vineyards, Midway, KY, as a Benefit for Our Mims Retirement Haven. This is the true story of teenage Jeanne Mirabito who falls in love with Our Mims when she sees her race on TV. Jeanne makes a “cosmic claim” and vows “one day” she will own this champion racehorse. 21 years later fate brings them together.
EIE: Victoria, please talk to us about the transition from actress to writer, producer and director.
VR: I grew up in Manhattan and attended the High School of Performing Arts. I was one of only six students admitted for three different majors - music, dance and drama. I ended up selecting music and studied piano. After graduation, I attended Columbia and really started pounding the pavement looking for work in television, modeling and theatre. I would go meet with photographers, audition for commercials, and I landed some work. I became "Miss Hawaiian Punch", even though I am not Hawaiian. I’m Filipino and Spanish on my father’s side and Irish and Lenapi Indian on my mother’s side. I appeared in many commercials and was even on the box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes!
I later went on to pursue a movie career and starred opposite Charlton Heston and worked as a television series regular in shows such as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Doogie Howser, M.D., The Chisolms, and Falcon Crest among others.
New York, N.Y., September 15, 2015 - Palomino Entertainment Group presents the premier of its film “One Day” on Friday, October 9th at Equus Run Vineyards, Midway, KY, as a Benefit for Our Mims Retirement Haven. “One Day” features interviews with Eclipse Award-winning photographer, Barbara Livingston, Hall of Fame Jockey, Jorge Velasquez, and award-winning journalist, Steve Haskin. The film's narration includes Emmy nominee... Read more...
ONE DAY - OUR MIMS Documentary Teaser (2015) from Palomino Group on Vimeo.
“One Day” film premier to Benefit Our Mims Retirement Haven at Equus Run Vineyards on October 9th, 2015
New York, N.Y., September 15, 2015 - Palomino Entertainment Group presents the premier of its film “One Day” on Friday, October 9th at Equus Run Vineyards, Midway, KY, as a Benefit for Our Mims Retirement Haven. “One Day” features interviews with Eclipse Award-winning photographer, Barbara Livingston, Hall of Fame Jockey, Jorge Velasquez, and award-winning journalist, Steve Haskin. The film's narration includes Emmy nominee, Josh Charles, (“The Good Wife”, “Sports Night”, “Dead Poets Society”.)
This is the true story of famed thoroughbred, Our Mims, the 1977 Eclipse Award Champion 3-year-old Filly. A teenage Jeanne Mirabito falls in love with Our Mims when she sees her race on TV. Jeanne makes a “cosmic claim” on her and vows “one day” she will own her. 21 years later, in the backfield of a cattle farm, fate brings them together. They form a bond and through that relationship, a horse rescue was born called Our Mims Retirement Haven (OMRH) where broodmares are given a forever home. OMRH is located in Paris KY.
"One Day" is directed by Victoria Racimo, founder of Palomino Entertainment Group. Victoria has an extensive career as actress, writer, and director. She produced the film “Casi Casi” and sold it to HBO, was co-author with Alicia Keys on the recently released book “Blue Moon”, and staged two theatre scenes for Steven Spielberg in his film “Lincoln”. She starred opposite Charlton Heston in “The Mountain Men” and in Disney’s “Ernest Goes To Camp”, among many other credits. Editor and Executive Producer, TanNa Young, is Coordinating Producer on the CBS hit series, “The Good Wife”.
Palomino Entertainment Group is a multi-faceted film, television and theatrical production company. PEG produced the film as a gift to OMRH to raise awareness and support for the horses at the Haven. “One Day” will also be used as an educational tool about issues surrounding horses that no longer earn money on the track or in the breeding shed.
Reception is at 6pm. Screening at 7:15pm. Tickets are $50 for adults, $25 for 17 and under. Key Sponsorship of this Benefit is by Broadway Stages NYC and the Kennedy Family Trust with in-kind support from Equus Run Vineyards and Catering by Donna.
Ticket Info and Media contact: Victoria Racimo at racimo@palominogroup.net
Amanda Vance is a busy woman! She works full time at Upstate Equine Medical Center, teaches riding at her farm, North Country Horses, coach's an Intercollegiate Equestrian Association Team, and also leads the effort for ReRun, Inc. thoroughbred adoption organization with a location in New York rehabilitates, retrains and rehomes off the track thoroughbreds for a new careers. Amanda recently shared information about ReRun with EquineInfoExchange.com.
EIE: Tell us about your involvement with horses and how you got started with ReRun?
AV: I grew up riding and attended SUNY Cobleskill degree in Equine Science.
Read more: ReRun - Rehabilitating, Retraining & Rehoming OTTBs
By Jennifer Wentz
Two years have passed since Dot Morgan opened an email from a Gettysburg artists saying he wanted to donate proceeds from painting he sold to her racehorse rescue, New Vocations.
But the artist didn't paint those pieces. His horse did.
"I was like, 'Well, this is interesting,'" Morgan recalled with a laugh.
Two years, countless media appearances and more than $63,000 in donated funds later, Morgan said that email was a godsend.
