Mountain States Retired Racehorse Rehoming

05/31/2026

Weve been busy with horses, intakes and adoptions! For now here is a Pic of the OTTBs enjoying the grass in the big pasture (and a couple for adoption). We are so thankful for the late rain we've recieved!

04/29/2026

👀 Without further ado - the results of the Gutsy Study.

✳️ Our 4 Gutsy horses, history, their level of ulcers and the results after study (all horses on free choice grass alfalfa mix - heavy on the alfalfa, residing in Eastern Colorado):

1️⃣ 10 year old gelding
🔷️ retired from racing since 9/2023
🔷️ 40 starts over 4 years
🔷️ Earnings $100,500
🔷️ lots of downtime
🔷️ regular post track training
🔷️constant pasture turnout since retirement
‼️Initial scope: grade 2 glandular & Grade 4 Squamous
✅️ Results after completion of 4 weeks of Medication through study: Squamous 90% healed, Glandular 90% healed

2️⃣ 4 year old gelding
🔷️ retired from racing since 2/2026
🔷️ 5 starts over 3 years
🔷️ Earnings $2350
🔷️ Downtime since 2/2026
‼️Initial scope: grade 4 glandular & Grade 2 Squamous
✅️ Results after completion of 4 weeks of Medication through study: Squamous 100% healed, Glandular 90% healed

3️⃣ 8 year old gelding
🔷️ Not been in race training since 9/2023
🔷️ 12 starts over 4 years
🔷️ Earnings $97,370
🔷️lots of downtime
🔷️constant pasture turnout since retirement
‼️Initial scope: grade 2 glandular & Grade 3 Squamous
✅️ Results after completion of 4 weeks of Medication through study: Squamous 90% healed, Glandular very little improvement

4️⃣ 6 year old gelding
🔷️ Retired since 12/2025
🔷️ 19 starts over 3 years
🔷️ Earnings $33,590
🔷️ Downtime since 12/2025
‼️Initial scope: grade 2 glandular & Grade 3 squamous
✅️ Results after compof 4 weeks of Medication through study: Squamous 90% healed, Glandular very little improvement

📬 Conclusion: We are not sure if the location of the glandular ulcers was the determining factor on if they showed improvement or not considering all 4 received the same medicine, in same intervals and quantities, but it appears so.

*pics of some of the enrolled Gutsy Horses

04/19/2026

Soo thrilled to be in a Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance spotlight. Thank you so much TAA for your support!!

Get to know Mountain States Retired Racehorse Rehoming! 👏

Mountain State Retired Racehorse Rehoming or MSRRR is a 40-acre farm 35 minutes east of Denver, CO. The founders realized a huge need for off-the-track horses needing 2nd careers back in 2008. This is when they started campaigning for a better future for horses from Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Co. and subsequently from many tracks and breeding farms in Colorado and neighboring states. This small act of rehoming one horse turned into over 350 between 2008 and 2021 and has continued on after becoming an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2021.

Learn more:
https://bit.ly/4cAJ1yB

03/30/2026

This is why we cant have nice things 😆🙄

And yes thats a big tank of an ottb (by Dialed in) 🐴

03/27/2026

💙💙REHOMED💙💙 9 year old gelding by Candy ride o/o a Storm Cat mare. We dont usually bring up breeding but his is pretty impressive. Hes forward under saddle but not unmanageable. With some consistency and training he'll be a super fun ride. He's in his everyday winter clothes in the picture 😄. 16.1 hands, ready for a new career and person. Video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8bgyArG/
Message for info.

03/27/2026

6 year old gelding Ram is ready to go onto a new zip code. Intermediate rider be ok. 16h. Video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8bgyXTd/

We forgot to take pics of him not being ridden so this is the best we have 😬 my kiddo riding him at the end of his ride but its an idea for you all 🙃. Message for more info or to set up a time to see him.

03/26/2026

‼️Long but super informative post‼️

We've been busy participating in the Gutsy study at Littleton Large Equine Hospital in Littleton Colorado.

This entails taking horses to Littleton Large Equine Hospital for an initial 1st scope (to see if they qualify for the study) and then 3 "recheck" appointments for medicine (or placebo - trial is completely random) and then a 5th trip for the follow up scope to see if the medicine they are trying to get FDA approval for works (more info here https://gutsyhorsestudy.com/)

We are currently on week 5 of 7 chauffeuring OTTBs back and forth 🚛.

The medicine is injectable ulcer medicine which they hope will be less costly than your ulcer or gastro guard and less time consuming treatment.

Why did we devote time and resources to this? We felt that learning which horses had ulcers, to what extent and allow us to work toward treatment for them *if* they got a placebo and if they got the medicine it would hopefully help them.

Our pool of horses (19) included TBs that had raced a long time (war horses), had raced very little (1-5 times) were unraced, were slowly starting back under saddle or had been resting for 1 month to 15 months and ranged in age from 3 to 9.

Findings:

15 had grade 2 or higher squamous cell ulcers (ulcers in the upper, non-glandular portion of the stomach caused by prolonged acid exposure)

4 had grade 2 or above squamous and at least medium grade Glandular ulcers (erosions in the lower, acid-producing region of the stomach. Unlike squamous ulcers caused by acid splash, glandular ulcers occur when the protective mucus barrier breaks down).

4 qualified for the study (study was focusing on glandular ulcers).

Important: ALL HAD ULCERS 🔴

We will now decide what is the best way to cost effectively start to treat the ponies for their ulcers and begin with the higher grade more severe cases.

If you are the proud owner of a wonderful thoroughbred its a good chance yours too has ulcers. Please consider doing a course of meds, this can really help their attitude, overall health and behavior.

One of the vets told us about Abler (and I know a few who have used it) which is a lower cost and reputable company that makes multiple ulcer treatment options.

Also - if anyone has extra or unused gastro or ulcer guard they'd like to donate we'd (and the OTTBS) would be very grateful 🙏

02/27/2026

Of course we're a little biased 🤷‍♀️ but thoroughbreds really can do it all. Look at this 5 year old mare by Anchor Down be cool as a cucumber at the Casper Ag Expo. This event educates third graders about agriculture and there was more than 850 students, a good portion of them who said hi to "hottie" 🔥. *Also* shes learning how to be a working horse and earn her keep on the ranch - how cool is that!

02/16/2026

Hi Mountain States Retires Racehorse adopters! We would love to feature you on social media so please post your MSRRR with a description of how long you have had your horse, what they have done since retiring and a beautiful photo, action or portrait, of your partner!
Thank you so much for being a part of the MSRRR family!

02/13/2026

If Dennis the Menace was a horse it would be Terrance here 😈 😆. We recently installed the Bar Bar A waterers and so far are happy with them. Terrance figured them out easily after only a few hours. Terrance is also for adoption 😄