The ninth international forum for the aftercare of the racing horses dealt both as a discussion talk, which benefited from the expertise of both the moderators and the spectator, both success stories and challenges with gigantic pictures, while they dealt with the details of building progress and approaching problems.
The three -day forum was started on April 24 with a series of presentations and panel discussions in the Spy Coast Farm Equine Equine Education Center near Lexington and will continue with participants from all over the world who visit elderly friends and the Kentucky Horse Park. This latter visit will include the chance to go the defender's cross-country course with four times Olympic Boyd Martin.
In the panel discussions on Thursday, some of these crucial details included the development of successor plans for aftercare facilities. In a committee of sustainable business practices in aftercare, the President and CEO of Elderly Friends, John Nicholson, delivered a fresh perspective on this topic when he started the founder of the thoroughbred farm, Michael Blowen, in these leadership roles according to the Blowen pensioner.
Nicholson has attributed Blowen to prepare for the transition by talking to employees and board members about how a succession plan would work. Nicholson said when he started there was a written plan and the main expectations of the CEO were outlined. In addition, he said Blow helped him.
“An crucial word that you should remember in successor planning is mentoring,” said Nicholson. “I am so grateful to my friend Michael.
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“I also identified one or two employees and asked them to tell me what I had to hear – to speak to total freedom; even if it is something that I don't want to hear. They also became informal mentors.”
Erin Halliwell, Managing Director of Thoring Engbred Charities of America, found that many non -profit organizations are often due to a single person, and it is crucial that these companies carry out transition planning. Some of the things that should be considered are access to accounting, bank documents and social media accounts.
During a committee about the committed riding communities, Dr. Kenji Korosue from the Japan Racing Association determines that different approaches in the early training of racing creses can benefit them all the time when they go into the second career. Korosue pointed to techniques that he said that they are less stressful for juvenile horses, an evaluation of the audience.
Participants of the IFAR conference
Natasha Rose from the Hong Kong Jockey Club corresponds to the often repeated advice of her North American colleagues in aftercare and said that it is crucial that race trainers take a horse's secondary career into account. She said when the conditioner made race decisions, she said that it will be a gigantic difference for the horse in the future if it is not pushed for a final start in which an injury could restrict its career opportunities for subsequent stands.
A remarkable exchange that quickly promised to be addressed by the organizers began with an audience who asked during a committee about the transition to a second career to make an effort to be transferred to veterinary records about retired racing horses with them into their fresh aftermath. The Panel member Ashley Watts from Lifefoff Equestrian/Canter Kentucky agreed that such records would aid decision-makers bring horses to the right career, to aid with the planning of a transition and reduce costs.
“That would be amazing,” said Watts about the transfer of such records. “It would be nice to have the data too. Then they could look and see: 'Oh, it only had these X -rays a month ago, for money for the same X -ray, because you did not have this information. I think that would be amazing.”
On the same committee, Tom Perschino, Senior Director of Equine Welfare for the American Society, has attributed the interest of the Jockey Club to Aftcare as a huge driver in recent years. He said it would be crucial that other racial organizations will be included in the future.
Jim Gagliano at the Ifar conference
The TJC President and Coo Jim Gagliano thanked the moderators and participants of this year's conference and found that horse lovers around the world are interested in aftercare, and named the website of Ifar educational material, success stories and advice in English, French, Arabic, German, Spanish and Turkish.
“I am ecstatic to say that Ifar was and is successful,” said Gagliano. “Since the start, Aftercare programs have been founded in Ireland, Japan, France and Korea, and fresh programs in Recent Zealand and Australia have been expanded.”
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