Thursday, February 5, 2015
Happy to be accepted
Fine Leather and I are excited to be a part of the Retired Racehorse Project. We look forward to meeting everyone.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Makeover Application
Owner Name: Laura Wiencek
Farm or Organization Name: Win-Seek Performance Horses
Address: Cortland, OH 44410
Website: www.win-seekperformancehorses.com
Trainer Name: Laura Wiencek
Trainer Classification
Professional (USEF Classification)
One or more video links of trainer riding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE8AmHvl8UU
I am the rider in the burgundy shirt on the video running the barrels.
Trainer Bio(*)
Include competition resume in disciplines of choice, experience training horses, and work with
Thoroughbreds inside and outside the racing industry
I grew up learning to ride on my father's coon hunting mules. I got my first pony at age 6. By age 13 I had my first barrel horse, Custus. I have trained numerous horses and riders. I have won various awards throughout the years in barrels and team penning. I placed at The Josey Junior World Championships, Quarter Horse Congress, and Quarterama. In addition, I have placed in various team penning events in the tri-state area. I competed in the Extreme Retired Racehorse Competition in 2013 and rode in the demonstration for barrels at the Retired Racehorse Training Project also in 2013. In 2013 we started retraining and Rehoming racehorses for barrels and every day riding. In January 2014 I helped found the Thoroughbred Barrel Racing Association. Throughout 2014 the young ladies in my barn and myself have taken these thoroughbreds to various competitions to help build awareness of how amazing these OTTB are. In October with the help of Tara Jones (also from the ERRC) we had a clinic in Telford, PA. I use many of the thoroughbreds we have retrained at various clinics and expo's. We also use not only Spade from the competition in 2013 but some of our other horses that we have retrained.
Identify any trainers or instructors that you expect to work with as you prepare your horse for the Makeover
Discipline(s) that you expect to exhibit
Barrel Racing
Horse Info
Jockey Club Name: Fine Leather
Year of Birth: February 23,2010
Date of Last Race: May 14, 2013
Last Owner: Monica Krummen
Describe the process by which you acquired the horse and any information you have about its transition from racing
I had watched Leather in the spring of 2013 racing at Mountaineer and fel in love with the big teddy bear. Something in his eye just showed a desire to win and want to try. I got Fine Leather in May of 2013 after he came off the track at Mountaineer hurting both his hoof and his left front knee. He also had trouble breathing. I kept him at my farm to recover for the rest of the year in May of 2014 I sent him to Bill Hackney to try racing one more time. He spent the summer and fall at Mr. Hackney's but when he went to Mountaineer to do a morning workout he came back with a swollen ankle. Xrays revealed a shadow on his ankle near his sesamoid and Mr. Hackney felt rather than risk Leather further injury that his days of racing were over. We brought Leather back to the farm in October where he has been recovering for the winter. He has had the opportunity to become a horse again and play in the snow and relax.
Describe any work under saddle that the horse has received since racing
I was on him twice in 2013 shortly after he came back from the track just to see his reaction to a western saddle and once in a jockey saddle for a photo shoot. Unfortunately with the extensive injury to his front hoof when he was cut off on the track in his last race (can be seen tripping in the race video shortly after leaving the gate) he needed time for the hoof wall to heal so we were unable to ride him.
Farm or Organization Name: Win-Seek Performance Horses
Address: Cortland, OH 44410
Website: www.win-seekperformancehorses.com
Trainer Name: Laura Wiencek
Trainer Classification
Professional (USEF Classification)
One or more video links of trainer riding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE8AmHvl8UU
I am the rider in the burgundy shirt on the video running the barrels.
Trainer Bio(*)
Include competition resume in disciplines of choice, experience training horses, and work with
Thoroughbreds inside and outside the racing industry
I grew up learning to ride on my father's coon hunting mules. I got my first pony at age 6. By age 13 I had my first barrel horse, Custus. I have trained numerous horses and riders. I have won various awards throughout the years in barrels and team penning. I placed at The Josey Junior World Championships, Quarter Horse Congress, and Quarterama. In addition, I have placed in various team penning events in the tri-state area. I competed in the Extreme Retired Racehorse Competition in 2013 and rode in the demonstration for barrels at the Retired Racehorse Training Project also in 2013. In 2013 we started retraining and Rehoming racehorses for barrels and every day riding. In January 2014 I helped found the Thoroughbred Barrel Racing Association. Throughout 2014 the young ladies in my barn and myself have taken these thoroughbreds to various competitions to help build awareness of how amazing these OTTB are. In October with the help of Tara Jones (also from the ERRC) we had a clinic in Telford, PA. I use many of the thoroughbreds we have retrained at various clinics and expo's. We also use not only Spade from the competition in 2013 but some of our other horses that we have retrained.
Identify any trainers or instructors that you expect to work with as you prepare your horse for the Makeover
Discipline(s) that you expect to exhibit
Barrel Racing
Horse Info
Jockey Club Name: Fine Leather
Year of Birth: February 23,2010
Date of Last Race: May 14, 2013
Last Owner: Monica Krummen
Describe the process by which you acquired the horse and any information you have about its transition from racing
I had watched Leather in the spring of 2013 racing at Mountaineer and fel in love with the big teddy bear. Something in his eye just showed a desire to win and want to try. I got Fine Leather in May of 2013 after he came off the track at Mountaineer hurting both his hoof and his left front knee. He also had trouble breathing. I kept him at my farm to recover for the rest of the year in May of 2014 I sent him to Bill Hackney to try racing one more time. He spent the summer and fall at Mr. Hackney's but when he went to Mountaineer to do a morning workout he came back with a swollen ankle. Xrays revealed a shadow on his ankle near his sesamoid and Mr. Hackney felt rather than risk Leather further injury that his days of racing were over. We brought Leather back to the farm in October where he has been recovering for the winter. He has had the opportunity to become a horse again and play in the snow and relax.
Describe any work under saddle that the horse has received since racing
I was on him twice in 2013 shortly after he came back from the track just to see his reaction to a western saddle and once in a jockey saddle for a photo shoot. Unfortunately with the extensive injury to his front hoof when he was cut off on the track in his last race (can be seen tripping in the race video shortly after leaving the gate) he needed time for the hoof wall to heal so we were unable to ride him.
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