Rocky Bear & Elizabeth

Rocky Bear and Bits & Bytes Farm owner - Elizabeth

This Web site was created to tell the stories of the Off-the-Track Thoroughbreds Bits & Bytes Farm has sold. The Mission of Bits & Bytes Farm is to help sellers (of Thoroughbred racehorses for sale) to find buyers who have the ability to transition these horses to new careers. We offer assistance and guidance to make sure the horses we sell are successfully placed. Our Success Stories are proof that Thoroughbred racehorses make great sport horses and family members when their racing careers are over.

When a horse is purchased with the assistance of Bits & Bytes Farm, we require the new owners to stay in touch and provide us with updates. These updates are posted on our Success Stories pages so that the sellers of the horses know that their horses are doing well and have not gone back to racing or been slaughtered. The sellers care about these wonderful Thoroughbreds and they too enjoy reading about their horses' successful new careers. They often call or e-mail to thank us for finding a home for a horse they bred or trained. To learn more about Bits & Bytes Farm and our mission please visit our Web site at: www.BitsandBytesFarm.com.

Bits & Bytes Farm is to help sellers (of Thoroughbred racehorses for sale) to find buyers who have the ability to transition these horses to new careers. We offer assistance and guidance to make sure the horses we sell are successfully placed. Our Success Stories are proof that Thoroughbred racehorses make great sport horses and family members when their racing careers are over.

Be sure to visit our Facebook page, YouTube channel, websites and G+ page to learn more about Bits & Bytes Farm and the Thoroughbreds we have found second careers for. Links are at the top of this page. Enjoy!

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Aly’s Alpha Boy’s Report Card From College

Aly’s Alpha Boy has gone to college with his mom Laura. Read their update.

Great Games arrives in the dark of night

Great Game Arrives

From the cold dark depths of the Bangor Maine night….with the chill 38 degree wind blowing on a night as dark as dark—only a half moon shining feebly high in the sky—–a trailer pulls in. . . Great Game has arrived!

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Fast Commander Endures Many Changes

We have had a busy first ten days. My new outdoor arena is under construction & trenching is being done to bring water to the barn & arena, so everything is pretty disrupted around here & riding is limited. Commander has learned to lunge nicely. We are working on his manners around people, which are…

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Ides Pride May Be Available For Sale

“Seary” (Ides Pride) is doing well, she is back in work and doing really well. We are jumping x-rails about once a week. The rest of our time has been spent on flat work, still trying to move her muscle back up where it belongs as you can see in the pictures I have attached she has a bit of a baby belly.

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Is This Normal?

Learn how to handle a strong willed horse.

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Doxology – SOLD! March 2008

SOLD! Congratulations Pam Klein of Tampa, Florida! This was his Prospect Horse FOR SALE information: “Dox” is a 16.2 hand, 2004 COLT. “Dox” is up-to-date on everything and he has no vices. His exercise rider says this horse is all class on the racetrack. He is fantastic to ride and just floats across the ground.…

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“Sage” is (at) Home on the Range

Home…Home on the range (in Texas)…..Sage is now finally here with me and he has a new best friend Tiger. Both of them are 4 year-old OTTBs and they are both beautiful fiery red chestnuts. You would think they are long lost brothers, because they are inseparable. They don’t leave each others side….even though they are turned out with three other horses. If you take one of them away from the other they whinny at each other it’s hilarious.

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Gold’s Anatomy – SOLD! March 2009

SOLD! Congratulations to Leslie Hempleman of Flagstaff, AZ Here is his Prospect Horse FOR SALE information: “Goldie” is a 2004, 16’1 hand chestnut gelding. He is clean legged with no vices. He is sound and hasn’t run fast enough to injure himself. The guy who broke him said he was one of the smartest horses…

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Mudbaths, Mayham, Whatever . . . Life is Good for this OTTB

Sorry it’s taken me so long to write, but the weather has been wretched and the only thing Outflankem, aka Bailey, (aka Mr. B ) has been doing is eating and taking mud baths! We got “Mr. B” so my husband could take a crack at some lower level eventing, and maybe some fox chasing.…

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LOVE IS – When Your New Horse (“Kwinn”) Knows You’re Mom!

“Kwinn” (aka Dr.Canhewin) was funny tonight when I went to see him. I stopped by after work as I do every evening. The all laugh at me because I wear my office clothes to the barn and into the stall with “Kwinn”. Anyway, he saw my car pull in and apparently was fussing in his…