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We offer a first class sport horse boarding facility. 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. Our location is superb, our staff first rate and highly sought after, and we keep a small operation that allows you first hand information on how your horse is doing. Owners are directly involved with decisions on care and training of their horses. We value our reputation and treat our customers as we would want to be treated, and their horses as if they were our own. We have an open door policy and invite visitors. For those of you wanting to visit either of our locations, please email Kim at moserwood@insightbb.com for driving directions.
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.
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 is the public livestock auction, and then it's downhill from there. I have seen this happen many times in 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, full time manager of Moserwood Farms, and Executive Director of Second Stride, Inc.. Kim 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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