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Brook Hill Retirement SANCTUARY

REHABILITATION
Center for Horses RETRAINING/ADOPTION

EQUINE-ASSISTED PROGRAM

TESTIMONIAL:
“We are so proud
to see the TAA
leading the way in
the aftercare
industry. Its
generosity makes
our work caring
for and retraining
Thoroughbreds so
much easier, helps
adopters and donors
identify reputable
aftercare programs,
and enables us to
help so many more!”
Sir Gus was awarded the Thoroughbred of the Year Award by The Jockey Club Thoroughbred
Incentive Program for excelling in a non-competitive career in equine-assisted therapy.
FOUNDED: 2001

Since its inception in 2001, Brook Hill Retire- efforts. The average stay for a Brook Hill horse is ADDRESS:
ment Center for Horses has been unique in its 12 months, during which most of the horses are 7291 Bellevue Road
focus on working with lame horses and horses in able to recover from their injuries, or have been Forest, VA 24551
their third or fourth career. retrained for new jobs.
Fully accredited by the Global Federation Brook Hill also is a retirement center for those PHONE: (540) 586-0207
of Animal Sanctuaries and the Thoroughbred with special needs or who are aged and thereby
Aftercare Alliance, the nonprofit organization hard to adopt into homes. These horses are paired MAIN CONTACT:

is a rescue, rehabilitation, and retirement center with disadvantaged, at-risk, or disabled teens in Jo Anne Miller, Executive Director
that utilizes an experienced team of veterinar- an equine-assisted therapy program. As a Profes-
ians to create individual rehabilitation programs sional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship WEB ADDRESS:
for each horse that comes to the facility. International-accredited center, the youth learn brookhillfarm.org
The plan begins in an on-site lab where horses life skills that enable them to be successful in
can receive physical therapy, radiographs, wound school. During this pandemic, Brook Hill is home SOCIAL:
care, medications, farrier and chiropractic work, to a pod school for at-risk youth, the students BHRCHorse
and whatever else is necessary to aid in their spending half their day in a traditional classroom @brookhillfarm
recovery. at the farm, and the other half working on the
Well-trained volunteers help with the Brook rehabilitation of horses. Many retired broodmares
Hill mission by aiding in basic equine care, farm and pony horses are in this program.

maintenance, and office work, while college To date, Brook Hill has rehabilitated and placed
interns earn academic credit assisting in rehab 508 horses.

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