News Carver Makes Headlines for New Vocation

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00:00Vino Rosso's full brother News Carver didn't make any headlines on the racetrack, but the

00:07team at New Vocations is hoping that one day he could become a star in the show ring.

00:11We talked to Anna Ford about their new arrival.

00:14It was about a month ago we got a call from Tanya Gunther who said that she had a really

00:20nice three-year-old she wanted to see if we could take into the New Vocations program.

00:25And at the time, she gave me his name, said his name is News Carver.

00:30And so we were really excited when we looked him up on Equibase to see that he was actually

00:35the full brother to Vino Rosso.

00:39He definitely, I would say, knows that he is of royal blood.

00:45He has a little bit of an attitude or a chip on his shoulder a little bit.

00:52He definitely came off the trailer just like you would expect.

00:55Very proud of himself, has that presence of a very quality horse.

01:01And he does look a lot like his brother, Vino Rosso.

01:05And he's got a buddy right now who just came into the program too and they're really learning

01:09how to relax and let down and just get some good R&R.

01:14So once he gets comfortable with that and we feel like he's really relaxed and physically

01:17and mentally just let down, then we'll bring him back into training probably over the winter.

01:25The Gunthers have been good supporters of our program.

01:29We feel really proud that they trust us to take good care of a horse like News Carver

01:34and make sure that he gets the best chance at a second career.

01:39We're moving into our 13th year of doing the New Vocations Breeders' Cup pledge.

01:44We ask owners and trainers of Breeders' Cup contenders to pledge a percentage of their

01:49earnings and this year's championships back to New Vocations.

01:52This year I'm really excited.

01:54We will break a million dollars total from all those 13 years.

01:58So far we've raised $950,000 and last year alone we raised $150,000.

02:05So this year we're excited to hit that million dollar mark and hopefully we just can go way over it.

02:12So with News Carver coming in at this time of the year, we were excited to be able to

02:17have him and maybe have him featured during this time because obviously his brother, Vino

02:22Rosso, won the Classic in 2019.

02:26But the really neat part of that story is that Vino Rosso's owners, both Mike Rapoli

02:31and St. Elias and Todd Pletcher, the trainer, pledged that year.

02:36And so in 2019 that was one of our record-breaking years for the pledge that we raised

02:41over that $150,000 mark and really just launched the pledge into a new level.

02:48And so it's really neat to be three years later sitting here with Vino Rosso's brother

02:54in the program and then heading into, you know, the Breeders' Cup season and trying

02:59to promote, you know, the pledge and get people to join in.

03:03So this year is a very special year as well because it's our 30th year anniversary for

03:07New Vocations and we've basically been celebrating all year and we're really hoping that we can

03:14round out the year with the Breeders' Cup pledge being our largest one to date.

03:19It would really mean a lot.