New Adoptable Horse Pictures Added
New pictures of the adoptable horses have been added. Please click on the link to see the horses and their new pictures!
SSgt. Reckless, The War Horse
The greatest war hero horse in American history, Staff Sergeant Reckless, served with the 5th Marines during the Korean War. She carried nearly 5 tons of ammunition to front lines during the battle to retake outpost Vegas. In 1997 SSgt. Reckless was honored as one of Life Magazine's Top 100 American Heroes. Click here for a video of her amazing story of how she became a true American hero. A website dedicated to preserving her history can also be found here.
Horse Show Benefits TRFSC
On Saturday, June 4, 2011, the first annual Camden Equine Circuit horse show was held to benefit the SC TRF at Pine Tree Stables in Camden, SC. The turnout was great, the participants enjoyed their rides and the TRF was able to continue its policy of creating opportunities for exposure around the area. The show will be larger next year and garner additional support from local and travelling riders. Prizelist donors OTTB Designs and Fenwick Equestrian, offered beautiful saddlepads and leg wraps to qualifying class winners and we certainly appreciate their support! The show manager, farm owner and show judges volunteered their property and professional time and the volunteer crew, made up of TRF board members and other TRF supporters all spent their day helping the cause. Thank you to everyone who participated in this show and there will be more opportunities for volunteer support in the future! Please refer to the attached link for photographs taken by Karin Martin, TRF supporter and photographer, for pictures of your riders.
2011 Boykin Spring Fling
The Spring Fling was a huge success and thank you to all the riders who came out to support the TRF and view the spectacular countryside! There were over 130 riders this year. The weather was perfect, the food was delicious and everyone enjoyed their ride through swamplands, upland fields and forests and along the Wateree River. Thank you to the landowners- the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the Shirley family, the Guy family and the Wooten family. Their generosity provides a truly special setting for this event. Our volunteers are the best and a very special Thank You is reserved for our faithful Spring Fling leader and tireless organizer, Diana E. DuBose, without whose hard work and skills this would not have been possible. Make plans for next year! I am sure the rider list is already 130+ strong! Pictures coming soon!
TRFSC In The News
The current state of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation was recently covered by George Grayson, President of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Board, in The Huffington Post article "Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Corrects the Record, Calls for Industry Funding". Click here for the full story.
Click here for other stories from the news about what SC TRF is doing at the Wateree River Correctional Institution for the horses and the inmates.
What We Do
 The South Carolina Committee of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (SC TRF) at the Wateree River Correctional Institution offers a place of hope and renewal...a true second chance..for retired Thoroughbred horses and prison inmates. At the SC TRF's barn, known as Seabiscuit Stables, the horses are safe, well cared for and loved. The inmates selected for the program become not only students learning marketable job skills for the equine industry, but also caregivers. For many inmate/students this is their first experience with expressing and receiving love as well as being responsible for the day to day welfare of another living creature. The transformation for man and horse is nothing short of miraculous. When the inmate/students, who successfully complete the Second Chances program, are released from prison, they return to life outside the walls better prepared emotionally, mentally, and practically to become contributing members of society.
The SC TRF together with the national TRF work tirelessly to rescue and retrain Thoroughbreds who would otherwise likely be sold at "killer auctions" in this country for transport to Mexico and Canada where they are brutally slaughtered and their flesh sold to fancy restaurants in Europe, Scandinavia and Japan where it is considered a delicacy.
Learn More, Do More, Help More
We invite you to learn more about the South Carolina Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation and our Second Chances Program by visiting us at Seabiscuit’s Stable. It’s easy to do; just contact William Cox at
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, 803-243-0034 or by mail at PO Box 2248, Camden, SC 29020.
How to Become a Member of the South Carolina TRF
That’s easy too; just contact William Cox by mail, email or phone: PO Box 2248, Camden, SC 29020,
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or 803-243-0034.
Sponsor a Thoroughbred at Wateree
Maybe you, your organization or your pony club would like to sponsor a Thoroughbred. A wonderful way to help us and put a face to your contribution is by sponsoring your very own horse; with no stall to muck!
Read an inspirational sponsorship story here.
Poems & Letters from Inmates:
• A Second Chance
• Horses and Me
• Reflections
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