Our mission is to give ex-racehorses a second chance in life.
As one of the leading organisations in this field, our work is vital to thoroughbred welfare. We provide a lifeline for horses who need time to adjust to a life after racing.
By supporting The Racehorse Sanctuary & Rehoming Centre, you will be directly helping us provide a life after racing through our rehabilitation, retraining and sanctuary programmes.
We are fortunate to have a fantastic team spirit at the Centre. Our staff and volunteers are all totally committed to the care and wellbeing of our horses.
With spring finally with us we have been able to do many of those post winter jobs, which have been affected by the relentless bad weather, and get the horses into their new summer paddocks. And there is lots to look forward to with summer approaching.
Fighting Temeraire has finally found his forever home. He will be joining Ellie who lives on the edge of The Ashdown Forest and she came collected him last Friday.
We now have a new additional volunteer on our team here at the Centre, Alex Seth-Smith, who is a qualified practitioner of The Masterson Method®. She explains – “as a previous owner of an ex-racehorse, I have first-hand experience of what can be required in this important period of readjustment.
At The Racehorse Sanctuary and Rehoming Centre, my role is to work with the horses to locate and ease the tension that has a restricting effect through the body, using a specific range of techniques and touch. The Masterson Method®, enables the harmful effects of accumulated muscle tension to be released …”