LIFE AFTER RACING: STORIES FROM ACROSS THE SPORT
From Grand National winners to dressage champions, former racehorses thrive after their final race. Here’s a summary of some of the best recent stories from across the sport.
The Jockey Club caught up with former Grand National winner Corach Rambler, who continues to enjoy life with former jockey Peter Scudamore at the yard where he was trained. Peter describes the decision to retire Corach, and what he means to him and the team at Lucinda Russell Racing.
Even in his racing career, the hugely popular Cheltenham winner Frodon was inseparable from his jockey, Bryony Frost. True to form, ‘Frodo’ as he is known, is now enjoying hacking the moors at Bryony’s family farm in Dartmoor. Watch as best friends Bryony and Frodo take a ride together.
Not all racehorses go on to succeed in a racing career, like Master Wickham, Retraining of Racehorses (RoR)’s 2025 Horse of the Year. Now known as ‘Darsi’, the former racehorse has gone on to compete in a multitude of equine disciplines at the highest level, including eventing at Badminton and showjumping at the British Showjumping National Championships. Hear from Claire on their journey below.
Former flat star Manobo recently embarked on a new career with Lou Robson’s Thoroughbred Dressage as part of Godolphin’s Lifetime Care retraining programme. Moby follows in the footsteps of stablemate St Gregoire, who has gone on to great success in partnership with Lou. Watch as Moby takes his first steps into his new career below.
Want to see more stories like this? Take a look at the success stories page on Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) website. RoR is British racing’s official aftercare partner created to help retired racehorses find new purpose and loving homes. RoR offers retraining and rehoming support, welfare programmes, and runs a national multi-discipline competition series which allows horses and riders to thrive at all levels.
A census, carried out by the sport’s Horse Welfare Board and Hartpury University in 2023, established there are around 33,600 former racehorses in Britain. RoR currently has around 40% of these registered as members, with the ambition to grow this membership considerably over the next year.