Trainer Will Walden has come a long way in a short period of time. Training only since 2022, through Tuesday, he had 35 wins on the year from 141 starters for a win rate of 25%.
There are many expectations at Stable Recovery, a drug and alcohol rehab program based at Taylor Made Farm, the world's largest seller of thoroughbred horses. Residents are up by 5 a.m., ready to work — and sober. Roughly 50 men are recovering from their addictions at the Kentucky farm, alongside 750 horses that give them structure, help them heal and keep them on track.
JESSAMINE COUNTY (LEX 18) — Stable Recovery volunteers and community members spent the day cleaning up a house and five acres of land for Elizabeth Blythe, a well-known figure in the equine industry who has fallen on hard times due to health and financial struggles.
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jaron Kohari never thought his path to sobriety would involve horses. The 1,000-pound animals unnerved him upon his arrival at a farm outside Lexington that teaches horsemanship to addicts, with the prospects of a job and a future if they get clean.
When Final Gambit thundered down the sloppy stretch at Churchill Downs to a fourth-place finish in this year’s Kentucky Derby, the crowd saw a promising horse giving everything he had on racing’s biggest stage. What they didn’t see was the man helping guide him there, Blane Servis , standing as a testament to something just as powerful as a Derby finish: the human capacity for redemption.
The Morning X features an essential "Someone You Should Know" segment, introducing Christian Countzler, the CEO and co-founder of Stable Recovery. Discover this unique therapeutic community that helps men (and now women) achieve lasting sobriety through an emphasis on an unexpected element: equine employment. Learn why their year-long, no-cost entry program is so successful, and hear inspiring transformation stories that showcase its remarkable results.
