•Washington: The Prodigious Fund - Finalists Announced for 100-Day Trainer Challenage, 6/13•
The Prodigious Fund trainer selection committee has announced five finalists and one alternate for the 100-Day Trainer Challenge, in which six former Thoroughbred racehorses will be retrained to perform in equestrian events at Emerald Downs.
The 100-Day Trainer Challenge begins June 28 and culminates October 5 at the Thoroughbred Only Horse Show at Emerald Downs, with an end goal of placing the retrained horses into permanent homes through a private sale.
“We were very pleased with the response from the equestrian community,” said event coordinator Sophia McKee. “We achieved our goal and have a good cross-section of training talent.
“The next step is to get each trainer a horse, and they then will have 100 days to teach the horse three new disciplines.”
Trainers will select horses from a pool of former Emerald Downs’ runners donated by Emerald Downs’ owners and trainers. A blind draw will determine the draft order.
At the Thoroughbred Only Horse Show, the winner will be decided by a combination of public voting on social media and the judges’ score in three categories: In-Hand, Flat Class, Freestyle Class.