Those of you who watched last night’s Eclipse Awards heard Jerry Moss read an excerpt from a piece written by Priscilla Clark, president of the Thoroughbred retirement facility Tranquility Farm in California. The prose was from the 2011 Tranquility Farm calendar and is entitled “The Story of Tranquility Farm.” It is reproduced here in its entirety: Calm has returned to …
Thanksgiving Week Charity Focus: Tranquility Farm
Earlier this year when 46 Thoroughbreds from a California breeder’s farm wound up by deception at a feedlot in Arizona, their eventual destination likely to be a Mexican slaughterhouse, Priscilla Clark of Tranquility Farm in Tehachapi, Calif., stepped in. Working with a nationwide network of friends and supporters who helped raise awareness of the horses’ plight and, more importantly, the …