Since its founding more than 20 years ago, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) has been proud of its many accomplishments, from each horse that it has saved to each new farm or facility it has opened, to every time it has helped spread the message that there is a far better way of dealing with unwanted former racehorses than sending them off to a slaughterhouse. The TRF, it has been

To Michele Oren, each horse at the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s Exceller Farm is special. You don’t devote your life to saving Thoroughbreds and finding them homes without having a special affection for horses. But she’s not afraid to admit that two of the 32 horses at the Poughquag, N.Y., farm where she is the manager are a little more special than most. That’s the way it is when you