BLACKSBURG, Va., March 24 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
FlooPowder used to run on dirt.Now he runsbarrels.
The 14-year-old Pennsylvania-bred gelding,a former racehorse turned National Barrel Horse Association champion,stepped into the Jane and Stephen Hale Indoor Arena at Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center, in Leesburg Virginia,to demonstrate something the equestrian community has been paying increasing attention to:What a thoroughbred can become after the track.
His appearance was the centerpiece of the inaugural Thoroughbred Wellness Expo, a collaborative event co-hosted by the Equine Medical Center and theRetired Racehorse Project, a national nonprofit ...