Abby's Spirit is a 5 year old, bay gelding that came to us in partnership with New Start for Horses out of Penn National. He raced 24 times with his last race at the end of August, meaning he definitely deserves some down time to unwind and be a horse. This Pennsylvania bred gelding is by Golddigger's Boy (a son of Jump Start) and out of a Lite the Fuse mare.

"Abbott" retired sound, just in need of time to unwind and let down. He's shown no vices and has been lovely to work around since he arrived at ATR. He had a great evaluation with our vet who found him clean, just both body sore and foot sore since his last race. She recommended just giving him our usual let down time to be a horse and look at him again after he's had a chance to let down. Since then he had an abscess pop and is MUCH more sound and comfortable since it drained. A good abscess definitely explains things!

Abbott has been good for the farrier and vet and has been sound since resolving the hoof abscess. While we're still giving him some deserved let down time, he has the temperament on the ground to be amateur friendly. Once he's had a good month to be a horse we'll get him started again under saddle. Til then he's available to someone comfortable bringing along a horse recently off the track.

We'll get pictures soon - stay tuned!