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Welcome to Horse Illustrated’s weekly installment of the My Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, offered in partnership with The Right Horse. Irma Girl is this week’s adoptable horse. Check back weekly for a new featured horse so you can find your Right Horse.



Adoptable Horse: Irma Girl, a 6-year-old 16.1hh Thoroughbred mare
Organization: After the Races in Elkton, MD

Photo by Bethany P. Photography, courtesy of After the Races
Photo by Bethany P. Photography, courtesy of After the Races
Photo by Bethany P. Photography, courtesy of After the Races
Irma Girl is a Thoroughbred recently offered for adoption through the ASPCA's Right Horse Program. Photo by Bethany P. Photography, courtesy of After the Races



 

This week’s Adoptable Horse, Irma Girl, arrived at After the Races by way of Aftercare Charles Town in West Virginia. She is by Limehouse and out of a Carson City lined mare, making her very well bred. She retired after 33 races. Irma has no vices and is very sweet.

Is Irma Girl your Girl?

Her easy going, sensible attitude and endearing personality have made her a barn favorite. She completed rehab for a minor soft tissue injury with no expected future limitations and is plenty athletic to go in any direction. She was just started back in work in late October and is proving a very good student on the long lines. While Irma is just being started into work, she seems like a sensible horse who will make a fun project for even adult amateurs that have a good trainer by their side throughout the process.
Is Irma Girl your Right Horse? Click here for more information about Irma Girl, the My Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week.

My Right Horse

My Right Horse is the online adoption platform of The Right Horse Initiative, a collection of equine industry and welfare professionals and advocates working together to improve the lives of horses in transition. A program of the ASPCA, their goal is to massively increase horse adoption in the United States. To find more adoptable horses and foster horses, visit www.myrighthorse.org. To learn more about The Right Horse, a program of the ASPCA, visit www.therighthorse.org.

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