Mission Statement

TROTT (Training Racehorses Off The Track) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to providing retiring racehorses with opportunities for new careers beyond the track. Through rehabilitation and retraining in our professional facilities, we ensure each horse donated to TROTT has the chance to learn the new skills necessary for life as a pleasure or show horse in a non-racing home. TROTT believes that a horse with an “education,” or basic training, has a greater chance to lead a successful life off the racetrack. In addition to organizing fundraisers and events, we actively seek donations, sponsorships, and grants to support the horses in our program.

Vision Statement: Resource Rather Than Rescue

TROTTʼs model is not that of a typical ʻrescueʼ. The average race trained thoroughbred who needs to leave the track, whether from injury or lack of speed, needs help in his transition. TROTT is a resource to the trainers who are told to ʻfind the horse a good homeʼ.

Sadly, even though the horse originally sold for tens, or even hundreds of thousands as a race prospect, at the point in his life when he leaves the track, he has little value.

TROTT believes that by giving these horses training for a new discipline, we are giving them value, and thereby giving them a future. Our goal is to develop a pipeline to the sport horse market, so that the OTTB doesnʼt need to be ʻrescuedʼ. Whether disappearing into a backyard to a lonely existence, or falling through many hands to end up in a feedlot, TROTT wants to stop that pipeline, and create a new one.

As a resource, we have a TROTT ʻDream Teamʼ. This consists of professional grand prix level trainers, and rehab caregivers with decades of racehorse experience. Horses needing rehab go to a dedicated racehorse lay-up farm. When our vet clears them for training, they move into one of our 5-star training facilities.

By starting them under saddle, we know their talents, and can let pre-screened adopters ride the ones who fit their criteria. And by taking the horses before they disappear, we prevent the mental trauma they suffer when in a rescue situation. This gives the horse a much easier transition. Ones who canʼt be ridden due to injuries, can be retrained as non-riding therapy horses, or if pasture sound, can be retired to the life they deserve.

TROTTʼs model for reaching our goal of a new pipeline, is to offer to the secondary equine market, a healthy, sound, horse with a good mind, who has been started under saddle, and assessed for his best job.

We believe in educating the sport horse community, and networking within it, in order to develop potential homes and adoptions for our quality TROTT horses.

If you share our vision, we invite you to join our mission. Whether through volunteer efforts, adoption, or donations and sponsorships of any size, together we are making a difference.

Facility visits are always welcomed! Our tax id number is 27-2043846.