Today is also the anniversary of the day I bought my own horse, also a Thoroughbred. In fact, my dad used to joke what a poor financial decision we made buying my horse on his birthday. Instead of buying a spry six year-old, we bought an older, depreciated seven year old.
If you're not a TB person, all TB racehorses have the same technical birthday. For example, my horse was really born in March, but his official date of birth is January 1st. So he was considered one year old on that date even though he was technically only 10 months old. This has to do with races which are broken down by age groups, like the Kentucky Derby being a race only for three year-olds. The goal is to have your foal born as soon after January 1st as possible so as to give it more time to develop.
Anyway, Happy Birthday Thoroughbreds!
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