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!
Grayboo Continues to Move Up and Win in Eventing!
Amanda Cunefare and off-the-track Thoroughbred, Grayboo, are competing successfully in combined training at the Preliminary level. They won second at River Glen in Tennessee and first at Poplar Place in Georgia.
Mr Inquisitive/Mr. Wonderful – One Year Later
I bought Mr. Inquisitive from you when he was 3 years old last December. He has been such a pleasure. I have been taking it slow with his training since I am in no hurry and he seemed to benefit from this approach. He is an excellent jumper-my trainer loves him.
Vilas County Thrives with a New, Exciting Career
I have pictures from Vilas under saddle. Actually I just started to ride him again beginning of last week. Since I got him in January he had more or less some time off. He needed to get used to be 24/7 outside, get used to walk on the hilly terrain of our pasture and to…
OTTB: Off-Track-Trail-Boss
Seeing Heart walking around out there like he’s been doing it all his life and loving it, it is simply impossible to believe this guy has ever been a race horse. Somewhere along the way to me he must have been confused with another horse 😉 But whoever he is, I’m keeping him… he’s just great! 🙂
Finders Chance – SOLD! June 2008
SOLD! Congratulations Jim Schmidhammer of Knoxville, TN on the purchase of Finder’s Chance!
Taken’ Photos of Taken Chances
Here are a few pictures of Taken Chances. They are not great, but they do show how much weight he has gained. He is doing great, I just love him. – Laura
OTTB Behren’s Design moves to California
He is doing great. It has been raining here since Friday. It is horrible. I hope to have a dry week so I can get him out. Yesterday his hind right leg blew up. I am hoping that is just lack of getting to move around. He seems to be sound on the leg.
Living the Life of “Riley” at His First Recognized Horse Trial
One year off-the-track, Golds Anatomy placed second in his first recognized Area X Horse Trials. The dressage rings were actually on a race track and he didn’t bat an eye!
Votive – Groundwork, Schroundwork. Let’s Ride!
Just wanted to let you all know I have backed Votive, finally! We have done much groundwork in the month that has passed. We have a great bond with each other and I feel she completely trusts me 100%. We have now had two days of being ridden very easily. Yesterday I had someone hold…