Living Legends horse retirement home
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Living Legends is an international home of rest for champion horses located on Oaklands Road at Woodlands Historic Park in Greenvale
near Melbourne, Australia. Opened in 2006, the organization's primary activity is the care of older horse
s; but it also supports equine research, education and training to benefit horses of any age or breed.
Modelled on the Home of Rest for Horses
in Speen, Buckinghamshire
, England
, Living Legends is a charitable organisation which relies on private and corporate donations and sponsorships.
Open to the public, horses that can be seen at Living Legends as of June 2007 are:
Greenvale, Victoria
Greenvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume...
near Melbourne, Australia. Opened in 2006, the organization's primary activity is the care of older horse
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
s; but it also supports equine research, education and training to benefit horses of any age or breed.
Modelled on the Home of Rest for Horses
The Horse Trust
The Horse Trust is a UK equine charity based at Speen, Buckinghamshire west north west of London. It was founded in 1886 to help the working horses in London making it the oldest horse charity in the world...
in Speen, Buckinghamshire
Speen, Buckinghamshire
Speen is a village in the parish of Princes Risborough, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about three miles south east of the main town.The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'wood chips'...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, Living Legends is a charitable organisation which relies on private and corporate donations and sponsorships.
Open to the public, horses that can be seen at Living Legends as of June 2007 are:
- Apache CatApache CatApache Cat is a popular Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who had 43 starts for 19 wins and was placed on another 11 occasions from for just under $4.6 million in prizemoney....
- Better Loosen UpBetter Loosen UpBetter Loosen Up was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Japan Cup in 1990 and was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1991. He campaigned from two to seven years of age, and won 17 of his 45 starts, including eight Group One races...
- Bomber Bill
- BrewBrew (horse)Brew is a small, plain bay Thoroughbred gelding who won the 2000 Melbourne Cup for trainer Mike Moroney and jockey Kerrin McEvoy. Brew carried the lightweight of 49.5 kilos, and defeated the veteran Yippyio and the stablemate Second Coming...
- DoriemusDoriemusDoriemus is a retired Thoroughbred racehorse who began his career in New Zealand and rose to prominence in Australia by winning the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups in 1995. He became just the ninth of eleven horses to complete the double....
- Fields of OmaghFields Of OmaghFields Of Omagh was a champion middle distance Australian Thoroughbred racehorse of the early-mid 2000s. He was a half-brother to the stakeswinners, King Brian , Malcolm and Timeless Grace .Fields Of Omagh was trained at Lindsay Park, South Australia by Peter...
- Might and PowerMight and PowerMight and Power was a New Zealand bred, Australian owned and trained Thoroughbred racehorse who was named Australian Horse of the Year in 1998 and 1999. As a four-year-old, Might And Power won the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, and returned at five to become only the second horse in the history of...
- Paris Lane
- Regal Roller
- Rogan JoshRogan Josh (horse)Rogan Josh is an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, who won the 1999 Melbourne Cup when ridden by John Marshall for the trainer Bart Cummings.Rogan Josh was purchased for $13,000 by owner Wendy Green and began his racing career in Western Australia...
- SaintlySaintlySaintly was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1997. A giant chestnut gelding by Sky Chase out of All Grace , he was bred by his trainer, Bart Cummings, who owned him in partnership with a Malaysian businessman, Dato Tan Chin Nam.Saintly gained...
- Silent WitnessSilent Witness (horse)Silent Witness was an outstanding Thoroughbred racehorse who won his first 17 starts in sprint races in Hong Kong. He was ranked the world's top sprinter for three seasons....
- Sky Heights
See also
- Old Friends, Inc.
- Home of Rest for HorsesThe Horse TrustThe Horse Trust is a UK equine charity based at Speen, Buckinghamshire west north west of London. It was founded in 1886 to help the working horses in London making it the oldest horse charity in the world...
- Thoroughbred Retirement FoundationThoroughbred Retirement FoundationThe Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation is an American organization founded in 1982, whose mission is stated to be: "To save Thoroughbred horses no longer able to compete on the racetrack from possible neglect, abuse and slaughter."...