{"id":18780,"date":"2013-12-19T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=18780"},"modified":"2014-01-06T15:05:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T20:05:44","slug":"those-horses-you-see-pulling-black-buggies-might-be-retired-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/those-horses-you-see-pulling-black-buggies-might-be-retired-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Those horses you see pulling black buggies might be retired champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writer Andrew Jenner, a 2004 graduate, begins here by explaining the EMU-regional angle to his (following) article on a man who buys former racehorses in Pennsylvania to be used to pull Amish and Old Order Mennonite buggies around the country.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bobby gets competitive on the way to church. He’ll lean into his harness if he senses another horse and buggy behind him, and if one tries to pass, he’ll lift his head high and quicken his pace, just the way he used to on the racetrack in Pennsylvania. He won 10 races back in his day. Now he\u2019s 9, too old to race but great at pulling a buggy from a farm a few miles west of EMU out and around the back roads of Rockingham County, Va.<\/h5>\n
Sometimes \u201cMary\u201d \u2013 the 30-something Old Order Mennonite woman who co-owns him (she asked that her real name not be printed, due to her group\u2019s emphasis on humility) \u2013 wonders what he\u2019d do if she really let him run, but it doesn\u2019t seem like the wisest idea on hard-top roads. When she first got him in 2012, it was tricky to rein him in sometimes, but he\u2019s getting better, more accustomed to his slower pace of life these days.<\/h5>\n
Like Bobby, almost every horse you\u2019ll see pulling a buggy these days began its life in a racing stable. Most were never as good as him; all were sold as soon as it became apparent they weren\u2019t fast enough anymore, or perhaps ever, to bring in money from racing. By that point in their lives, though, they were harness-broken, well trained and plenty fast enough to pull a buggy. The Amish and the Old Order Mennonites are eager buyers, happy to let the racing stables shoulder the time and expense of breeding and training nearly all of the Anabaptist buggy horse fleet.<\/h5>\n
The following article, reprinted with permission from the Modern Farmer website (\u201cFrom Racetrack to the Buggy,” June 21, 2013),<\/a> profiles an Amish man from Pennsylvania named Joel Brenneman (his real name) who buys these too-slow racehorses at the track and sells them to the buggy market. A network of buyers, brokers and dealers among the Amish and other buggy-driving groups eventually sends his horses, and ones bought by others like him at other racetracks, all over the country.<\/h5>\n
In Rockingham County \u2013 home to thousands of modern-living Mennonites like the ones at EMU, as well as to hundreds of Old Order Mennonites who rarely attend college \u2013 a dairy and produce farmer named Norman Burkholder (also his real name) sits on the opposite end of the buggy horse supply chain. A few times a year, he brings in a truckload of horses \u2013 some of them likely bought by the man profiled below \u2013 for auction in the village of Rushville, 10 miles southwest of EMU. A typical buggy horse will fetch around $3,300 in Virginia, and be in good buggy-pulling shape for six or so years. Most Old Order families have two serviceable buggy horses. Burkholder and a partner bring about 50 horses a year to the area, and are the only ones in their community now in the buggy-horse importing business.<\/h5>\n
* * * *<\/h5>\n

Amish buyer known well at the race track<\/h3>\n

By 8 a.m. on a June day, the stables clustered around The Meadows racetrack, 25 miles south of Pittsburgh, are buzzing with activity. Standardbred horses pulling jogging carts \u2014 two-wheeled chariot-like contraptions with a seat for the driver \u2014 clip-clop back and forth between the stables and the track for their morning workouts. Veterinarians make their rounds, stable hands muck out stalls. Dozens of horses, vehicles and people are heading in every direction, with right-of-way always going to the horses, the stars of the show.<\/p>\n

Qualifying rounds for next week\u2019s races begin in a few short hours, and everyone here, including Joel Brenneman, has plenty to do.<\/p>\n

\"Amish
Joel Brenneman at the racetrack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brenneman, 34, cuts a unique figure at the racetrack, wearing suspenders over his plain blue shirt, a wide-brimmed straw hat and the no-moustache beard distinctive of his Old Order Amish community. When his wife Rachel calls in the afternoon to check in, they talk in Pennsylvania Dutch. English is his second language, spoken with a faint but distinct Amish accent. Relaxed and easy-going at the track, he strolls straight into the thick of the action, exchanging pleasantries with practically everyone he sees. \u201cWhat\u2019s up, dude!\u201d exclaims one energetic groom when Brenneman saunters into his stable. Many know him by name, as he does them.<\/p>\n

Standardbreds, an American breed developed in the 19th century for harness racing, are everywhere, hundreds of them. Some will turn out too slow to cut it at the racetrack, but they\u2019ll be perfectly suited to pulling an Amish buggy. Brenneman is a link between the racetrack and the insular Amish community, buying these too-slow horses for resale as buggy-pullers.<\/p>\n

First trained to pull a jogging cart<\/h3>\n

Most buggy horses used by the Amish and other related \u201cplain\u201d religious groups begin their lives in racing stables where they\u2019re trained to wear a halter and pull a jogging cart. (This process is known as \u201cbreaking\u201d and comes before \u201ctraining,\u201d the process of getting a broken horse into top racing form). A Standardbred foal with a good pedigree can sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but is always something of a gamble. Some never return anywhere near that in terms of race winnings, and even fast horses get old and slow down, eventually reaching the point of retirement. That makes the Amish, willing buyers of well-trained, strong and buggy-ready horses, a handy option for the owner of a Standardbred with no racing career ahead of it. The ideal buggy horse is a four-to-six-year-old gelding with \u201cclassic good looks,\u201d (it\u2019s hard to discern, exactly, what horse people mean by this) that typically fetches no more than $4,000 on the Amish market. In most cases, an owner who sells a horse to Brenneman will do so at a loss, sometimes a significant one. Still, it\u2019s often a better deal than keeping an unproductive race horse around indefinitely, and it gives owners peace of mind to know that their horses are being put to valued use elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I have a horse that needs a good home, I call Joel,\u201d says Dayne Snyder, one of the many racers whom Brenneman now counts among his friends at the track.<\/p>\n

One of the unusual aspects of the business of horse racing is that its primary assets \u2014 horses \u2014 are affectionate, intelligent animals with personalities as varied and distinctive as human beings. Owners and trainers often form deep emotional bonds with beloved horses that figure strongly into end-of-racing-career decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI make sure that I know where our horses are going when I sell them,\u201d says Heather Wilder, another owner at the racetrack who does business with Brenneman.<\/p>\n

Saved from slaughter in Mexico or Canada<\/h3>\n

A worst-case scenario, in the prevailing view of the racing community, would be a horse ending up on the \u201ckill market,\u201d bound for a slaughter in Mexico or Canada (no U.S. slaughterhouse has processed horses since 2007). Selling a horse for slaughter is something Brenneman says he never has nor ever will do, although earning the trust of the folks at The Meadows has been a process long in the making and requires constant maintenance.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding relationships with people at the racetrack takes many, many years \u2026 [and] it\u2019s a huge part of my success,\u201d says Brenneman (a point he reiterates several times throughout the day).<\/p>\n

Brenneman begins his mornings at the track (he comes about once a week) walking up and down the length of nearly every stable, making his presence known, chatting and generally doing what we\u2019d call \u201cnetworking\u201d in more white-collar settings. He makes the two-hour trip from his home in Salisbury, Pa., with a hired driver who also hauls Brenneman\u2019s horses from the racetrack back to the farm. (Different Amish groups generally set their own policies on adoption of various modern technologies and tools; Brenneman does not drive a car or use a computer, but he does use a phone and, sometimes, a tractor on his farm.) Once the buggy horses arrive at his place, Brenneman tries to resell them as quickly as he can, hopefully at a modest profit of maybe a couple hundred bucks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of money in buggy horses,\u201d he admits, between one of the morning\u2019s many stable visits.<\/p>\n

Brenneman is also into more potentially lucrative things like breeding, foaling and breaking horses for racing clients. Someone who sells him a buggy horse today might ask him to break a valuable foal later on, so each transaction has value beyond the profit hopefully made on the individual horse.<\/p>\n

He talks with a woman about the Welsh Corgis she breeds. He bumps into a man a few stables over who has a Boxer dog in need of a good home. Brenneman says his sister might be interested. They exchange phone numbers and decide to be in touch on the matter. In Dayne Snyder\u2019s stable, where Brenneman has trouble working the coffee maker, he laughs along with everyone else when a friendly joke is made about his Amish technological ineptitude.<\/p>\n

Friendships maintained despite racetrack cussing<\/h3>\n

Brenneman has developed many, many such friends in the stables here since at his first trip to the racetrack as a wide-eyed 18-year-old. He clearly remembers the way he was literally shaking with excitement that day, as well as the self-consciousness he felt about the way he dressed and stuck out from the crowd. That\u2019s mostly gone now. He does field questions, which he is happy to answer, about his religion and lifestyle from curious folks at the track, especially since “Amish Mafia” debuted on the Discovery Channel. (He hasn\u2019t seen the show, though from what he\u2019s heard about it, he considers it spurious and objectionable.) There are a few sources of discomfort that linger in the cultural gulf that separates Brenneman from the sometimes coarse world of horseracing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope I\u2019m never comfortable with the cussing, swearing and filthy language,\u201d he remarks.<\/p>\n

Brenneman positions himself down by the track when the qualifying rounds begin at 10 a.m. Lasting several hours, today\u2019s qualifiers consist of one-mile time trials, with 15 heats of six to eight horses grouped according to various racing categories. Running a mile at or below two minutes, as any harness racing horse worth its keep will do, is hard work. Horses that fail to qualify have to wait a week before trying again. After three successive failed attempts at qualification, the horse has sit out at least 30 days before making another go at it. If the animal is young or particularly promising, an owner may decide to wait out the downtime, or even turn the animal out to pasture for a longer period of R&R, but horses are expensive to keep around. Boarding alone, not counting training fees, could run an owner $600 to $900 per month.<\/p>\n

After one of the heats, a trainer disgusted by the non-qualifying performance of his horse loudly declares that this particular \u201cignorant\u201d and \u201crude\u201d horse, which isn\u2019t worth \u201cdogshit,\u201d will not be allowed \u201cback into his barn.\u201d This outburst amounts to a sales pitch to Brenneman, standing nearby. The trainer calls the owner to get an OK on a sale; Brenneman places a few calls to his network of buyers, and just like that, a deal is done. Brenneman writes a check and becomes the new owner of Chef Bo\u2019s Magic \u2014 a flunked-out racehorse about to get a second chance on the buggy scene.<\/p>\n

Second chance for slow, sore-kneed performers<\/h3>\n

When the qualifying rounds end, Brenneman continues wandering the stables and working the phones, chatting up potential sellers, calling potential buyers, making offers and counter-offers. By the time the day wraps up, he\u2019ll have bought five buggy horses. It\u2019s a respectable haul. Sometimes he doesn\u2019t get any. Sometimes he buys a dozen.<\/p>\n

\"Amish
Brenneman finalizing a horse purchase.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brenneman makes one last stop at the stables of Luis Porfilio, a champion trainer from Argentina who came to Pennsylvania for its more lucrative racing scene. Porfilio has a mare with a sore knee whose racing days are done. They begin their haggling over a banged-up mare\u2019s that\u2019s not worth much buggy-wise. Brenneman floats a figure of $800. Porfilio was hoping for $1000. They agree on a difference-splitting $900. As Brenneman bids his final farewells of the afternoon, Porfilio reminds him to make sure he\u2019s got his stall numbers straight. The filly in the next stall over is no $900, washed-up, sore-kneed horse. No, she\u2019s won Porfilio nearly half a million dollars \u2014 a fantastic return on the $7,000 he paid for her, he says with a delighted gleam in his eye.<\/p>\n

So much can depend on so little. Only the finest of distinctions in genetics, training and good luck separate these two nearly identical horses in their neighboring wooden stalls, one of them a lucrative, smashing success on the racetrack, the other bound for the gentle anonymity of life in the slow lane, hitched to a buggy along the shoulder of some quiet country road.\u00a0
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