{"id":212207,"date":"2025-09-09T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212207\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:10:15","slug":"former-racehorses-find-second-chance-at-arizona-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212207\/","title":{"rendered":"Former racehorses find second chance at Arizona rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Two spirited former racehorses named Bourbon and Rye are among 13 retired thoroughbreds getting a second chance at life through &#8220;<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afterthehomestretchaz.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After the Homestretch,<\/a>&#8221; a rescue organization in the far north Valley. <\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit, founded in 2011 and run by 50 volunteers, rehabilitates and retrains horses whose racing careers ended due to age or injuries before finding them loving forever homes. <\/p>\n<p>However, the organization faces a critical challenge after its property&#8217;s well ran dry, requiring $45,000 to drill a new one to continue caring for the animals. <\/p>\n<p>The race is on to acquire adequate water access. <\/p>\n<p>Until then, After the Homestretch has temporarily halted new intakes, limiting their ability to help more horses transition from the racetrack to retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full story in the video player above. <\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757189113_20_liveplayerbanner1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Two spirited former racehorses named Bourbon and Rye are among 13 retired thoroughbreds getting a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-212207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115173092766063039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}