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MOSERWOOD FARMS provides broodmare management, from booking your mare to a stallion through raising and preparing her foal for the auction ring or for race training. For our customers who would like to purchase or sell horses privately or at auction, we offer sales agent services and auction representation. We provide the best possible care for your horses, plus management options to fit your budget and help you reach your goals. We also offer lay-up care for horses still racing, and when your horse is through racing, you can bring him back here to transition to a new life away from the track.
One of our priorities is the placement of thoroughbred horses in a timely and well
managed fashion as they come off the track into retirement, with a plan for
the new owner to continue their training and transition into a new life.
Education is the key for all - the race owners, the horses, and the future
owners. In 2006, we completed the organization of a non-profit company to formalize our program for finding retired
racehorses new homes and new careers. See SecondStride.org for more information about our
re-training and placement program for retired thoroughbred racehorses.
In late 2006, Moserwood Farms acquired 103 acres of fertile grazing land and alfalfa hay fields in Pleasureville, Kentucky. Approximately 40 minutes up I-71 from our other location in Prospect. We call the new location "Moserwood Farms II." The farm has 4 tobacco barns, 4 good sized ponds, a limestone base to the fields, and a spring that has a pump and well to allow spring watered fields. In it's past the farm was a thriving tobacco farm and was visited by President Clinton. We are updating the facility daily and look forward to modeling it in the image of our Prospect location. This addition will be used in combination with our current leased facility to accommodate our steady growth, and allow more opportunities for sponsoring Second Stride Inc. racehorses needing room to mend or to await adoption. We are very excited about all the potential the new farm has. Our full time employee of 3+ years Rudy Perez and his family will be residing in the primary residence of the new farm. A wonderful peace of mind to have such a gifted horseman as Rudy with our horses full time! The first horses arrived at the new facility the week of 11/20/06, including a rare registered Palomino Thoroughbred weanling filly, several other weanlings, a few lead ponies, and a rescue turn out gelding that earned over $150k in his race career, and needed a new home to avoid going to the killer auction. We are so delighted to now have the space to offer horses such as him to come and mend; we expect after a 6 month turn out time he will return to a competitive career as a show horse. During renovation we are offering a discount to our clients who may choose to utilize the new location. We will offer free shipping of your horses to the new location and $1 off per day on board rates for the new facility. If you have interest in moving your horses to the new location to get the rate discount let me know and I will arrange it. That in combination with our multiple horse discounts really adds up to some potential savings! Also in 2006, we acquired an outstanding thoroughbred stallion, "Parnell Square", to stand stud at Moserwood Farms. Parnell Square is a well bred, versatile winner suitable to breed for racing, eventing, and other sports. Find out more about thoroughbred stallion PARNELL SQUARE >> NEW for 2008 - Kentucky bred thoroughbred stallion, "CAT DOCTOR", a speedy, correct and well bred winner, very suitable to
cross with both Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred race mares. Standing stud at Moserwood Farms. Find out more about thoroughbred stallion CAT DOCTOR >>
A message from Moserwood Farms owner Kim Smith -The business operations of Moserwood Farms centers on broodmare management for clients from around the country. I also have a lot of racehorses come to the farm that need to be retrained for new careers after their racing days are over. I thought long and hard about how to help out the racehorses in our community, and my brief look into the non-profit racehorse retirement world was discouraging. I found it to be loaded with red tape that discourages racehorse owners from donating horses.Many owners don't like losing control over the placement of their horses and losing future contact, or they don't like the hassle of getting them vanned to the site, plus fulfilling health requirements and paper work. Most of these owners end up making a poor judgement call because they have no idea what it takes to care for a thoroughbred just out of racing. They often place the horse with a friend who has "lots of land" somewhere so the horse can live what they are assured will be a fairy tale ending. Too often the reality is that horses in this situation end up severely thin and foot sore within 6 months, if they don't gut themselves on the 3 strings of barbed wire loosely put up to hold them in a previously unfenced hay pasture, and that is after the crazy trailer ride to get there after the new owner shows up with a 6 foot tall quarter horse trailer to load the 17 hand 2 year old thoroughbred! (yes I have even seen them show up with a ONE horse 6 foot tall trailer with no escape door of any kind for a 16 hand gelding accustomed to vanning to the track in his own semi-truck and trailer!!) Invariably in this scenario the horses develop bad attitudes and are labeled rogues when they buck off the 12 year old daughter her first time up in the western saddle to ride the horse a year later. The next place they end up at is the public livestock auction, and then it's downhill from there. I have seen this scenario many times in very limited exposure to the track. For this reason, I am offering a place for owners to send thoroughbred horses to retire from racing with dignity. Our farm has retraining facilities and services to give race horses a new career in dressage, jumping, or just trail and companion use. While the horses are being retrained, we network for them to ensure a timely transition into a new, loving, one-on-one home. Although there is certainly a place for the big non-profit companies, and they certainly do a lot of good work for ex-racehorses, I feel there is a need for a small scale service with no red tape. Our service is for owners who do not want to lose control of what happens to their horses, and want to be involved in finding an appropriate life for their horses after retirement from racing. We hope to provide an exciting and satisfying venture - for the horses, their owners, and all of us at the farm.
See SecondStride.org for more information about our
re-training and placement program for retired thoroughbred racehorses.
Below are a few pictures of Kim Smith, who has spent a lifetime around horses while living and working in Kentucky. She is a Kentucky licensed thoroughbred trainer and full time manager of Moserwood Farms. She also actively pursues her hobbies of trail riding, dressage, and eventing. Her continuing education includes training with Susan Harris at Spring Run Farm, one of the premier eventing barns in the mid-south, which is conveniently located just a trail ride away from Moserwood. professional organizations that Kim Smith is involved with -
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